I facing a problem after installed NT4.0 at my server , wish to install SQL server 6.5 , but system prompt me SQL 6.5 not successfull installed .

Any NT4.0 expert here can guide or help me ?

i do not know NT4.0 this OS but im pretty sure at da directory u installed da SQL server there are few ms-dos to let u fix or restart services.....are u using mysql??

if there is any error message please post it here and better screen capture the message.

yeah and post what u have done during installation, mayb there is steps that u have miss or done wrong.

not mysql , is Ms SQL server 6.5 for production system

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Added on November 17, 2007, 10:46 am

Its not show us error , only the SQL services cannot ON .... very strange !!!

By right it should be very direct but recently we had facing this kind of problem for 2 server .

Any consultant or expert can assist me ? We can consider paid for consultant fees or walk-in our company to fix the problem .

SQL services cant on?
Let me make thing clear before I give u some advice
1) The system, before u intsall NT4, is it a clean server?
2) u install NT and then sql or in server already using NT but u just repair it? and then u install sql?

if posible, just tell me what u have done.

Thanks hkpoh,

1) Yes , this is clean server
2) Install NT then sql

after install sql, did u check is there any service install? if posible, post a print screen on the sql, try to start the service manually, see if there is any error message given.

hi poh , we had solve the problem , this is cause by administrator installing step was wrong .

Anyway , thanks .

okie, happy that u found out the solution.

but the another server facing a problem , in event viewer it show the error \device\scsi port0 timeout within the responding period

u have this experience b4 ?

NT4.0 server is just too old
same as my previous company they're afraid to upgrade the server because the software installed *might not* compatible with the new OS
and they cant afford a downtime for that

\device\scsi is definitly the hardware controller
post the full error msg

is it the scsi card or power cable or hdd problem ?

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Added on November 23, 2007, 8:29 amThis is the replied from tek-tips.com

itsp1965 (IS/IT--Management)
22 Nov 07 10:01
depends what is connected to SCSI port 0. If you have a tape drive there could have been a timeout error waiting to write data or pull data off the tape. If you have a hard drive I would be concerned if there are multiple occurrences. It may not be an issue with the drive but could be a problem with SCSI chain/controller.
Start off with a reboot of the server at a convenient time to see if it clears it.

how many hdd u have? i mean for scci hdd. any fillover for ur hdd? event viewer always give error message, it's normal. just make sure all ur hdd is working fine n the fillover is running then everything should b ok. u have tape backup too?

The server will shutdown and restart again ..... after 6-7 days , this error will come again .... .

Inside the server have 1 scsi hdd and 1 normal hdd for backup data . and this server run around 4 years ++ , so far so good & stable . but recently this error occur quite often .

what additional hardware u have installed? I mean hardware not software. if there isnt any new hardware added, then u might wan to try scandisk, tis might b ur hdd error.

please post the error exact error message, so i can help ya to find out the problem. Just for ur info, i was a sysadmin, so there might b a lot of tech info i might miss out.

ok , tomorrow go in and scandisk and see what hdd any problem . thanks