Help with Startup

The online Startup Troubleshooter is designed to help you resolve problems you may encounter when trying to start Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2000.

Note  For international users of SQL Server Books Online, the text of the problems as well as the references to Knowledge Base articles appear in English and can be found on nonlocalized Web sites.

Common starting points for troubleshooting startup include:

• Error message "The service did not start due to a logon failure"
  
  
• The SQL Server error log contains operating system errors indicating that a file couldn't be found or opened.
  
  
• Error message "SQL Server could not find the default instance(MSSQLSERVER)."
  
  
• Error message "Unable to Locate DLL. The dynamic link library filename could not be found in the specified path."
  
  
• Error message "The application or DLL <Path> is not a valid Windows NT image."
  
  
• Error message "(The system cannot find the path/file specified) occurred while performing this service operation on the MSSQLServer service"
  
  
• SQL Server will not start, but there are no errors.

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