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Jeff Moden
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 Posted - 2009-07-29 : 23:34:55
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I've got one heck of a problem and I'm afraid I brought it on my self. Apparently, my system went through an automatic update over night and rebooted. The following morning, I logged in and the McAfee software asked me if I wanted to allow an update on SQLBrowser.exe and also recommended that I don't allow the update... so I didn't. Big mistake. SQL Server 2005 wouldn't work anymore.Since it wasn't a production system (it's my desktop box at home), I tried to unistall and it took several times but it finally uninstalled.Now I'm trying to do a reinstall and it installs many of the components but won't install the database engine, reporting services, or most of the other stuff and I have no idea why. It said to check the log but when I double clicked on the entry, nothing came up. There's about a bazillion log files and, frankly, I have no idea what they're telling me.Now there's no entry in ADD/REMOVE to try to uninstall and try again.I'm really stuck, folks. I could really use some help on this. I have Windows XP (sp2) running on a 32 bit machine. I'm trying to reinstall SQL Server 2005 Developers Edition. Thanks for whatever help you can offer because I'm jonesing for my SQL Server.Heh... and no... I'm not feeling much like an MVP right now. :-(--Jeff Moden
"Your lack of planning DOES constitute an emergency on my part... SO PLAN BETTER! ""RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for "Row-By-Agonizing-Row" |
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khtan
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Jeff Moden
Aged Yak Warrior
652 Posts |
Posted - 2009-07-30 : 00:14:37
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I found that article about 30 seconds before you posted it and I'm trying it now. Thanks for the response. The problem appears that I can't get MSXML 6.0 Parser to uninstall now. That just happens to be the first red blip that showed up when I tried to reinstall. I keep getting a "Fatal Error During Install" message. When I click on "Change" instead of "Remove" and try to do a repair, I get a "Setup interupted" message.Any ideas on how to beat that one out of the rug?--Jeff Moden
"Your lack of planning DOES constitute an emergency on my part... SO PLAN BETTER! ""RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for "Row-By-Agonizing-Row" |
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Jeff Moden
Aged Yak Warrior
652 Posts |
Posted - 2009-07-30 : 02:07:19
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Heh... ok... NOW I'm feeling more like an MVP! It took 8 bloody hours but I think I've got this problem licked. I'm in the middle of another reinstall attempt and it made it past the previous failures. Once I'm sure I've got a good install, I'll post what I did here.KTan... thanks for trying. I just knew you'd be one of the ones to respond even after midnight. It turns out that link had the "key" to the problem almost as a footnote. I just wanna make sure that it actually did fix the problem before I post the solution.--Jeff Moden
"Your lack of planning DOES constitute an emergency on my part... SO PLAN BETTER! ""RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for "Row-By-Agonizing-Row" |
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khtan
In (Som, Ni, Yak)
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Posted - 2009-07-30 : 02:10:44
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it is bright and shine where i am 
KH[spoiler]Time is always against us[/spoiler] |
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Jeff Moden
Aged Yak Warrior
652 Posts |
Posted - 2009-07-30 : 02:58:11
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Originally posted by khtan
it is bright and shine where i am
KH[spoiler]Time is always against us[/spoiler]
Same here... but it's because of "midnight oil" being burned. I'll post what I did to fix this problem later tonight. It's almost 3:00 AM here and I've gotta be up'n'at'em in about 3 hours.--Jeff Moden
"Your lack of planning DOES constitute an emergency on my part... SO PLAN BETTER! ""RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for "Row-By-Agonizing-Row" |
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Reinstall SQL Server 2005 Dev after bad mistake