Anyone having issues with SQL 2005 install on Server 2008?

[dgooge]

This is really making me angry, but a fresh clean install of Server 2008 Standard 64-bit on a brand spakin' new ML350 G5 is giving me all kinds of problems. The main one is the SQL Server 2005 Express install keeps crashing the server.

The install package unpacks then all of a sudden the start menu and desktop flashes on and off rapidly, like Explorer.exe is crashing over and over again. Sometimes it just quits and gives me a blank desktop and no start menu, other times it just reboots. Nothing of any substance is showing up in the event log, which is weird.

Has anyone seen this before? After a few quick searches it doesn't seem like there are any major compatiblity issues between the software.

 

[mrdenny]

This blog post should help give you some information on installing SQL 2005 on Windows 2008.

http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/sql-server/installing-sql-server-on-windows-server-2008/

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[dgooge]

Thanks for the help but that post revolves around firewall and SQL connectivity issues (post-installation and setup). My issue is SQL will not even begin to install, and brings the server down instead. It doesn't seem like a configuration issue.

 

[mrdenny]

That's very strange. I haven't seen anything like that on Windows 2008 as of yet. Is the SQL Express installer creating any sort of install log? And if so is there anything in it?

When you run the installer what switches are you providing? Are you running it in admin mode? (Stupid question probably.)

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[dgooge]

I looked for any log I could think of, it's not even creating a memory.dmp file when it reboots. I am using the standard install wizard, no switches.

It seems like I'm experiencing this problem with SQL and at other random times when working on the server via RDP. So it looks like a remote desktop issue and not SQL. Carryout out other various tasks also causes the server to crash when working via RDP. Any clues?

 

[mrdenny]

Sorry, that's a new one for me.

Denny
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[technome]

It seems like I'm experiencing this problem with SQL and at other random times when working on the server via RDP."

No issue will 2008 and SQL 2005. Perhaps you have a bad memory area in your ram. Do you have any memory you could swap in to the server?

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[dgooge]

If anyone is interested I think I solved the problem. I called MS to get the hotfix referenced in kb951954 . Even though I wasn't actually getting a stop error, it was behaving as if it were. It sounded close enough and I was getting desperate, and now the SQL install goes through just fine post-hotfix.