Hmm. I remember back in the day, when the display driver could crash on an NT 3.51 box, but SQL Server would still be up. We treated that as a crash.
A machine that was not responding on the network is getting its database transactions from where exactly? It's crashed, even if the disks are still spinning.
A machine that was not responding on the network is getting its database transactions from where exactly? It's crashed, even if the disks are still spinning.