blue screen on 2003 server upgrade

[p_camp1]

Hi,

While performing an upgrade from 2000 server to 2003 server, the server reboots, does a quick blue screen of death flash, and reboots again. This happens continuously. Tried booting into safe mode and same thing happened.

The blue screen happens so fast that I cant see the error message.

Managed to boot with an ERD commander CD and had a look in the setuperr.log file and found the following entries:

Error:

setupqry: (0x5) SetupInstallFromInfSection() Failed

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Error:

setupqry: (0x5) QueueConfigurationParams Failed

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Error:

Sub-component COM+ raised an exception while processing the OC_COMPLETE_INSTALLATION setup message.

d:\srv03rtm\com\complus\src\complussetup\comsetup\csetuputil.cpp (line 2712)

Error Code = 0x8000ffff

Catastrophic failure

Failed to execute function 'DllRegisterServer()' in 'C:\WINNT\system32\comsvcs.dll'.

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Error:

IIS Setup encountered an error. Please check the C:\WINNT\iis6.log file for further information.

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Error:

Setup could not register the OLE Control C:\Program Files\Common Files\System\Ole DB\oledb32.dll because of the following error:

LoadLibrary returned error 127 (7f).

Its the 'Catastrophic Error' that I am worried about. Had a look through the various sites that claim that reinstalling COM+ components would help but as I cant boot the thing up I can't do the reinstallation.

Any suggestions on what it could be?

Thanks in advance

PC

[fdv]

This was just the first thing that came to mind. Win2k's COM has had rollup updates issued because it's really buggy. Did you have the latest COM rollup?

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...kb;en-us;828748

Of course, you've got the whole 'not being able to boot' thing to contend with. ERD commander or doing a parallel installation is one recourse though I am sure at this point you're probably ready to backup your data with a BartPE CD and just reinstall Win2k3sp1