"John Salerno" <johnjsal@NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote in message
news:4427f455$0$9408$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com...
> . . . At the "Start Service" item in the checklist, I got a 1045 error
> message saying to allow TCP port 3306.
This is an Access Denied error. Have you read the page in the docs about
this? There are many potential causes for this error.
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/...ss-denied.html
Also check the Windows Event Log.
Start Menu -> Administrative Tools -> Event Viewer
Look in the 'Application' group, sort by the 'Source' column, and look for
MySQL.
Do you find any error reports of a crashing MySQL service?
This suggestion is based on the following bug log:
http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=12234
"Signal 11 Service Startup Abort for New Installation"
Which release of MySQL 5.0 are you using? The current release is 5.0.19. I
remember having trouble getting the service started with one of the earlier
releases, when it was still in an Alpha state. At that time, I gave up and
used 4.1. A later release of 5.0 worked better, but I couldn't tell you if
something was fixed in MySQL or if my machine configuration changed.
> The only thing I can think of that is even related to databases is that
> after installing a couple of Visual Studio Express Editions, I think SQL
> Server 2005 was installed, but I don't know if that would cause a
> conflict.
Me neither. I haven't heard of any instance of SQL Server causing a port
conflict.
Regards,
Bill K.