important SOS!!!!!!! (W2K)

[david_hdse]

My Windows 2000 server is not starting up it still preparing network conections till now its have been 4 hours ,it isn't normally,,,
what should i do

[markc0]

If you are on a domain that is running active directory I sometimes get the same problem its due to the machine checking the network to see if it had any tasks to perform before it went offline I normally just restart the machine and it comes up fine after that.