Faith, Hope and Parity

I’m in Remote Desktop, accessing a Windows 2003 server at work, using the “shadow 0” command to run as the console (having made the necessary gpedit.msc edit), and all of a sudden — BOOM! Session gone. Connection lost. So I jump on the digital KVM and start a session there to check the console, and whaddaya think I see? I see this!

It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a parity error on a machine with ECC memory. I’d just finished installing Windows Server 2003 and all of the updates, and was preparing to set up Clustering, with the quorum resource on the SAN, when the error hit. Annoying. The machine is running again, but for how long… ?

Now aren’t you glad I rarely mention work stuff?