Hitting My Head Against a Wall

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From: Darth 2000 (hasan_at_letter_u_letter_h.com.au)
Date: 03/25/04 

Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 03:00:44 +1100

Finally after 5 days, I have re-installed Win2K3 on my Test server.

It initially died coz of Blaster. I know i know, i can't whinge about that
coz i wasn't running any anti-virus.

Here's the problem which I cant find an answer for from anywhere...

I fdisked & low level formatted the machine.
Rebooted, started setup fm CD, but started to get error after error. These
were memory acess errors.

After 4.5 days of trying different OSs, I found that only NT4, 95 & 98 would
install without a hitch. 2K, XP & 2K3 would give similar problems to
eachother.
But Finally after glitches, errors and a lot of prayers, 2k3 installed.

With this FRESH installation, and i can't dcpromo the thing coz it says it's
a node in a cluster. Huh?? All i did was install windows! i haven't even set
any IP for the NIC!
So I tried to uninstall the cluster service fm add/rem win components, but
can't get there coz of the following error:
------------
Serup library comsetup.dll could not be loaded, or function OcEntry could
not be found.
Specific error code: 0x7e
------------

Can anyone help me?? 

-- 
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Darth 2000 - MCNGP # 28
Says: When it works, it's like a well maintained Mercedes Benz. When it
doesn't work, it's like Win95 with PMS.

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