>I cannot remote login to the server once it freezes as the server does not respond to outside requests or internal ones. I have not tried pinging it after it freezes but I would not expect this to return a reply.
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>>Have you tried to remote login into the frozen server (using RDP)? Does it respond to pings?

Uhmm, a long shot, but I would run a chkdsk command with the /f switch on on the system drive.... Sometime that has unstuck similar situations for me. Apparently there might be a currupted but hopefully recoverable file.