No, not any indications why it couldn't write.

No the SQL Server Error Logs. Skipped a week before it started logging again.

Thanks for the responses. I will pass it along. It appears to be a security issue only happening to laptop users coming in via the VPN.

No, checked for that. The Browser services is running on all systems where this is occurring.

Upgrading to a version later than SQL 2000 is not an option at this point. I simply have to get this thing moved from one data center to another...

We did get it done. It was SQL 2000 on the same server. Took 7 hours to restore 387G.

Actually I was very surprised to only find 9 VLFs

It's Windows 2003 Standard which is limited to 4G and SQL Server 2000 Standard which is limited to 2.

I'm just looking for some documentation that speaks to what happens during...

You might try taking the /3GB out leaving only the PAE. Sometimes the additional overhead of both switches causes some funky things.

Is there an sp_help_revlogin yet for 2008? Can someone provide a link? I can't find it on the Mickeysoft site.

Bean counters are accountants who figure out if you get to keep your job usually 😉

I just hate dealing with this type of mentality. it's such a time waster to have to engage someone outside of a DBA group to do our job.

I'm just...

Just a question--does the account running SQL have the priv lock pages in memory? I recently ran into something similar and had failed to do that. Change it...

Actually both failed. It just took me a while to figure out that SP2 was the reason the hotfix failed. It only failed on one node.

There's a stored proc on microsoft's site called sp_help_revlogins that will script all the windows and sql logins that are in master. Run that and save the output. ...