Nt Service Critical Error

[Zhefu Zhang]

Dear Gurus, perhaps a stupid q to you.
If a NT service failed with a critical error, the os reboot. Can this be stopped, if not, does it mean reinstall the whole OS is the only way out?
thanx ahead.

[agcascio]

Maybe the recovery setting for the service.
Look in settings| control panel| administration tools | services . Select the sevice that is
dying and rebooting the machine.
Right-click and select Properties.
On Recovery tab, see what 'failure:' action is defined. (In the dropdown, 'Reboot the computer'
is one of the pre-defined failure actions.

Hope this helps,
Tony

'The past is gone. Learn from it, forget it and use it to better your present and future'
(A bible paraphrase)

[Zhefu Zhang]

Thanx Tony, though it is ok to adjust the service MMC, the machine will reboot before you have a chance to log on if one service's failure leads to the reboot(at the time of windows starting, preparing connecting...)
I met a machine several months ago, which keeps endless rebooting. (no time to log on). So I suspect a malfunction service leads to this error.
thank you for the replay anyway. Regards,