{"id":1561,"date":"2012-11-28T14:59:03","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T03:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/?p=1561"},"modified":"2020-08-15T11:26:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T01:26:17","slug":"how-to-check-the-event-viewer-for-exchangehardware-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/?p=1561","title":{"rendered":"How to check the event viewer for hardware issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>Open event viewer<\/li>\n<li>Right-click the &#8220;System&#8221; log<\/li>\n<li>Choose &#8220;Filter current log&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Select Critical, Errors &amp; Warnings<\/li>\n<li>Leave the source as blank, which selects all sources<\/li>\n<li>In the event list, look for the sources that your hardware generates. These vary depending on your storage controller\n<ol>\n<li>Example of an underlying storage issue within a VMWare virtual machine (using the &#8220;pvscsi&#8221; driver):<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/event-viewer-scsi-warn.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1568\" title=\"event-viewer-scsi-warn\" src=\"http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/event-viewer-scsi-warn-300x208.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/event-viewer-scsi-warn-300x208.png 300w, http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/event-viewer-scsi-warn.png 632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We can see that a reset was sent to the device, most likely due to a timeout that was experienced whilst reading or writing to the device.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It can also be seen that the time correlates with our exchange errors above, confirming the fact that this machine had issues with its storage at that particular time.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Examples of physical server with bad blocks on the disk:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-17-at-12.56.41-pm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3069\" title=\"disk error warnings\" src=\"http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-17-at-12.56.41-pm-300x224.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-17-at-12.56.41-pm-300x224.png 300w, http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-17-at-12.56.41-pm.png 835w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-17-at-12.58.20-pm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3070\" title=\"disk error warnings 2\" src=\"http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-17-at-12.58.20-pm-300x224.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-17-at-12.58.20-pm-300x224.png 300w, http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-17-at-12.58.20-pm.png 835w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>You should be able to now replace the faulty storage component. Once it&#8217;s been confirmed working correctly, <strong>run an integrity check\/verification within your applications as since NTFS does not provide any error-correction capabilities, often some application data has been corrupted.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Please contact our technical support if you require specialist expertise.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open event viewer Right-click the &#8220;System&#8221; log Choose &#8220;Filter current log&#8221; Select Critical, Errors &amp; Warnings Leave the source as blank, which selects all sources In the event list, look for the sources that your hardware generates. 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