SBS 2003 Hung on " Applying computer settings"

I’m running a SBS 2003 SP1 since long time and everything was working fine until last night. There are 6 Windows Clients connected with this server. Yesterday when I shutdown the system, it was perfectly fine but today when I started it back, its been 2 hours SBS is stuck on "Applying computer settings."

We are not able to ping the server from workstations, neither connect/access the same nor use Outlook. Selected network connections & hour glass hung. It is not allowing me to select anything. I was not even able to shut down the server by pressing the button hence I needed to unplug the wire directly from the electric board. On the next restart, still the same.

Can anyone here help me with this?

Hello Galiher, while searching for the same i found few more threads with exactly the same problem. i think you should follow the suggestions and steps provided in the same. It will surely help you out. Here it is:

http://forums.techarena.in/small-bus...ver/332582.htm
http://forums.techarena.in/windows-s...elp/332507.htm

PowerChute Business Edition - Customers Using 6.x Must Upgrade to 7.x due to Java Runtime Environment expiration

So just remove PowerChute and restart.

I realize this an old thread, but had to reply to say "Thank you" for posting and allowing me to be able view this thread and resolve my issue. I could not figure out why the server was hanging at all. But you nailed on the head. I had installed the APC 6.2.2 and it failed with agent install and hung on create service. So I rebooted after installing some MS updates and left for the evening. The second moral, Do not reboot without waiting for the logon screen!