This problem occurs if the Cluster Disk driver (Clusdisk.sys) is not running. See
ME923838 to solve this problem.
As per Microsoft: "This problem may occur after you apply a security template through a domain policy or by manually setting the LAN Manager Authentication Level Local Security Policy option to anything other than Send LM and NTLM responses on the nodes in a Windows 2000-based cluster". See
ME272129 for details on this issue.
In my case, this event occured after a recent migration from EMC storage to IBM storage. The disk signatures were overwritten (as per the cluster log). The fix was to run dumpcfg.exe to force clusdb to recognize the new signatures.
This behavior is caused by the Windows NT Option Pack overwriting some newer SP4 components with older Windows NT Option Pack components. There are several Microsoft articles with information about this event:
ME169414,
ME171451,
ME218922,
ME258469,
ME295091,
ME296594, and
ME886717.
As per
ME251284 this behavior can occur if the disk that contains the Quorum log file does not have any free disk space.
The cluster service started and attempted to join a cluster. The node may not be a member of an existing cluster because of an eviction by an administrator. After a cluster node has been evicted from the cluster, the cluster software must be removed and reinstalled if you want it to rejoin the cluster. And, because a cluster already exists with the same cluster name, the node could not form a new cluster with the same name. Solution: Remove MSCS from the affected node, and reinstall MSCS on that system if desired.