I have a client who called me this morning to say everything was incredibly slow. I went to login remotely to the server using RDP and I could not, I never got to the login screen. I tried to get to the server using LogMeIN, and I almost got to a login screen, but after ten minutes, I figured a trip was in order.
At the server, CTRL-ALT-DEL would bring up the login within a minute or so, typing in your credentials and pressing enter and the screen would wait, wait, wait. At one point the screen went blank with a blinking cursor in the upper left for 30 seconds, then the GUI came back. The server was entirely non-responsive, the HDs were spinning away from what the activity lights were showing.
At this point, I had to do a hard reboot. The server came back, and i was able to login. Several user's PCs were still dead, despite repeated...