8-18 TroubleshootingProblems with Windows Server 2003

The system displays the message below and fails to log on.

Windows Product Activation

This copy of Windows must be activated with Microsoft before you can continue. You cannot log on until you activate Windows.

To shut down the computer, click Cancel.

YESNO Cancel

→In Windows Server 2003, the above message will be displayed if you use the operating system without executing the license authentication. Select "Yes", and execute the procedure for license authentication.

Cannot install the operating system correctly.

Did you confirm the notes on installing the operating system?

→See Chapter 6.

During installation, the following warning is registered in the System Log of the Event Viewer:

Error detected on the device \Device\CdRom0 during the paging operation.

→There is no problem on this issue.

Fail to start the OS:

Is the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER CD-ROM in the DVD-ROM drive?

→Take out the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER CD-ROM and restart the server. Is the OS broken?

→Use recovery process to recover the system.

The OS presents unstable operation:

Did you update the system?

→Installing a network drive after installation of the OS may cause unstable operation. Use the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER CD-ROM to update the system. (See Chapter 6.)

The system does not restart automatically when a stop error occurs, though the system is adjusted to automatically restarting:

→When the system does not restart automatically, restart it manually.