hello I have windows server 2003 and today for the first time I got the evil blue screen of a memory dump. We have sql server 2005 on that server so I can loose any data. When I rebooted and looked at the system logs here is what I found SYSTEM FAILURE 07/21/2011 The reason supplied by user LOCAL\Administrator for the last unexpected shutdown of this computer is: Other Failure: System Unresponsive Reason Code: 0x8000005 Bug ID: Bugcheck String: 0x00000050 (0xb6bfc000, 0x00000000, 0x8083ffb8, 0x00000000) Comment: 0x00000050 (0xb6bfc000, 0x00000000, 0x8083ffb8, 0x00000000) For more information, see Help and Support Center at can anyone help

Generally that error relates to a hardware driver issue. Have you updated any hardware drivers recently on the server? I would advise you to look at Bing! for extending your crash dump information. That error can also arise when you have a SQL process or query run amok on a server and hang it up. If you can log into the server, I would make sure that you are performing backups of your data ASAP, or have a regular system of backups in place. Look at the previous events to the system failure show in the log.

Hi, If you need further assistance, please note that we may have to analyze memory dump file to narrow down the cause of this issue, forum is not the best place for analyzing dump. It’s suggested to contact Microsoft Customer Support Services (CSS) so that a dedicated Support Professional can help you on this issue. To obtain the phone numbers for specific technology request please take a look at the web site listed below. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;EN-US;PHONENUMBERS If you are outside the US please see http://support.microsoft.com for regional support phone numbers. Regards, Bruce

Hello Jason I can get on to the server and we do backups every day. So thats not an issue, am looking at some issues in the log now

The server is a workstation, which is a Dell and its under warranty still. I talked to Dell before all this happend and added more memory to it. It was 2Gig now its 4Gig. I am wondering would the upgrade in memeory have anything to do with it??