Re: Services will not start, Unable to open event logs

Hi
Check out this KB article:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/838428/en-us

Had a similar problem as you awhile back and this helped for me.



"KerryC" <KerryC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> skrev i meddelandet
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Hi
Wondered if anyone could help. I have a Windows 2003 SP 1 server which was
running fine but yesterday having stopped the WWW and IIS admin service
and
rebooting I now cannot start the majority of the services on the box -
only a
handful of the automatic services start up when the box is rebooted.

The error messages I am getting are either
Could not start the <name of the service> service on local computer
Error 1068: The dependency service or group failed to start.

or the "could not start the service in a timely fashion"

The 1068 error applies to services such as WMI, WWW, IISAdmin and the
"timely fashion" error applies to services such as the server service. The
RPC service gives the error that the service is either disabled or has no
enabled devices associated with it.

Although there are some event logs in the event viewer I am unable to open
any of them.

In addition I cannot open any of the properties of the services so I am
unable to try things such as changing the log on account.

I have tried starting all the automatic services and none of them will
start.

Just wondering if anyone has any ideas other than rebuilding the box!

I did see a previous post regarding a similar issue which was fixed by
changing the log on account of the RPC service, however as I am unable to
get
to the properties page of the service I cannot try this.

Many thanks for any help.



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