stanrc

I've had windows home server running on a machine for maybe a week or two now. i have reinstalled the OS 3 times in total, and the server has yet to survive 24 hours without crashing/freezing. (the machine isn't overclocked). so when it freezes i have no choice but to restart it, which causes the RAID that windows creates to become unstable so it has to perform a chkdsk which takes forever, or it just doesn't boot, or i have to completely reinstall (see above). i don't know what to do. i love the idea of whs but its functionality as a server is lost when it crashes every day.

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DuckieHo

Install XP or Linux... see if it has issuese as well.

Have you stress tested your system?

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stanrc

no i have not done that yet. and at the moment its stuck in an endless reboot loop

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DuckieHo

Windows Server 2003 is really stable....

What PSU are you running?

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stanrc

the earthwatts that you recommended i believe. it was an open box from mwave

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HatesFury

Yeah, i'd say your easiest options would be A) install regular XP and just setup file sharing (should be easy enough) or B) just setup a linux distro. Since you're only using this for file storage (not as your gateway\firewall\etc) then you really dont have to have a server OS, you just need something functional that will facilitate sharing.

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stanrc

thats beginning to sound better and better. i really liked the way whs worked though, when it did work

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HatesFury

ohh BTW.. dunno if you'd be interested or not, but Ubuntu just put out a "media center edition" that we're playing with and it looks pretty friendly so far... google it if you want more info. The distro is called "Mythbuntu"

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