Article ID: 131402
Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.5
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.5
This article was previously published under Q131402
SYMPTOMS
Under extreme stress, a server may appear to hang. The desktop fails to respond to user requests. Network requests (including ping) are not serviced. Sessions to the server may be dropped and new sessions may be rejected. The following errors may be displayed at workstations that attempt to access the server:
CAUSE
A resource deadlock occurred in NETBT.SYS under relatively high stress.
RESOLUTION
NETBT.SYS has been corrected to resolve this problem in low memory resource conditions.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT version 3.5. This problem was corrected in Windows NT version 3.51.
Additional query words: prodnt
Keywords: KB131402
