MSDE 2000a installation failure on XP Pro

Hi,
Everyone know why MSDE 2000a is refusing to load on a XP Pro wiht Office SBS installed on it. It seems to have MSDE already but the default instance isn't accessible so I tried to install under another instance name. I have set the SA password.
File and print sharing is installed and running (I think). I'm able to share out folders.
Any suggestions?
Jim
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hi Jim,
"SqlJunkies User" <User@.-NOSPAM-SqlJunkies.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
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> Hi,
> Everyone know why MSDE 2000a is refusing to load on a XP Pro wiht Office
SBS installed on it. It seems to have MSDE already but the default instance
isn't accessible so I tried to install under another instance name. I have
set the SA password.
> File and print sharing is installed and running (I think). I'm able to
share out folders.
I'm not aware of such limitation... but, anyway, please add the /L*v
"c:\..\Log.txt" command line parameter in order to
inspect the resulting log file..
Andrea Montanari (Microsoft MVP - SQL Server)
http://www.asql.biz/DbaMgr.shtmhttp://italy.mvps.org
DbaMgr2k ver 0.8.0 - DbaMgr ver 0.54.0
(my vb6+sql-dmo little try to provide MS MSDE 1.0 and MSDE 2000 a visual
interface)
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sql

MSDE 2000 SP3a install failure

I am getting an error when installing SP3a of MSDE. I get the error message "The instance name specified is invalid." This is the first SQL database installed, so there is no instance name. I have tried "default" and "MSSQLSERVER" as instance names without success.

your help is appreciated.the instance name is "MSDE"

Why is this not in the setup documentation?

MSDE 2000 Rel A Installation Failure

try install previuos version of msde 2000 rel a, and update with sp3.
"chris fearnley" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> escreveu na mensagem
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> I have the same problem. I am trying to do test installtions of MSDE 2000
Release A on several systems, along with our own app which uses .NET. About
half the PCs halt the installation, usually when there is '7 seconds left'
and just hang. Same problem on XP SP1 and even old Win98 SE.
all right, see the 320873 article from microsoft's knowledge base to
manually remove a msde. since you don't have msde installed anymore, looking
for the key in registry and delete them.
after that, try to install msde 2000 (not msde 2000 rel a) and sp3.
"Joe Schillace" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> escreveu na mensagem
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> Adriano:
> The previous version of MSDE that I had installed was from MS Office 2000.
It appears that it installs SQL 7.
> I re-installed this version and it went in without a hitch. I then tried
installing SP3a.
> It got to about 3 or 4 seconds left and then rolled back. The setup log
indicates a failed installation.
> It seems that MSDE 2000 Rel A left some scraps in the windows registry. I
searched for "microsoft sql server" and found more than a hundred. I can't
tell from the log file which entry is causing the problem.
> I have deleted the microsoft sql server folder and ran regclean, hoping it
would remove the orphans. But, I am still having the problem.
|||Just found some more info to help solve previous posting.
There is an error line in the install log file:
......
Executing "G:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\80\Tools\Binn\cnfgsvr.exe -V 1 -M 1 -U sa -I "MSSQLSERVER" -Q "Latin1_General_CI_AS""
Setup failed to configure the server. Refer to the server error logs and setup error logs for more information.
Action ended 10:43:17: InstallFinalize. Return value 3.
......
...and in the error log from the newly-crtated SQL folder: (created by cnfgsvr?)
.....
2004-05-28 10:41:11.83 spid3 Default collation successfully changed.
2004-05-28 10:41:11.93 spid3 Recovery complete.
2004-05-28 10:41:11.93 spid3 SQL global counter collection task is created.
2004-05-28 10:41:12.64 spid3 Warning: override, autoexec procedures skipped.
2004-05-28 10:42:58.51 spid3 SQL Server is terminating due to 'stop' request from Service Control Manager.
(that was the last line in the log)
Note the time delay between the last 2 entries.

MSDE 1.0 --> MSDE 2000 DB Connection Failure

Just recently updated to MSDE 2000 using the SP3 Desktop upgrade. Now when this software runs it cannot connect to the Database.
I believe the problem to come in a line wrote as so:
BSTR bstrOpen = gServerName.AllocSysString();
although I'm not 100%.
Just wondering if anyone might had the same problem with MSDE 2000 and what they did to fix it. Thanks!
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Hi,
One of the things that's different about MSDE2000 is that by default, tcp is
not enabled. You might need to re-enable it. You can do this by running
svrnetcn.exe.
HTH,
Greg Low [MVP]
MSDE Manager SQL Tools
www.whitebearconsulting.com
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> Just recently updated to MSDE 2000 using the SP3 Desktop upgrade. Now
when this software runs it cannot connect to the Database.
> I believe the problem to come in a line wrote as so:
> BSTR bstrOpen = gServerName.AllocSysString();
> although I'm not 100%.
> Just wondering if anyone might had the same problem with MSDE 2000 and
what they did to fix it. Thanks!
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