Aage:
Thanks for your reply. I tried that to. Things were even worse
because the hourglass appeared for a short time and then nothing
happened. Things just didn´t load or run without even an error
message.

Paulo

--- In ib-support@yahoogroups.com, Aage Johansen <aagjohan@o...>
wrote:

> "pfsarli " wrote:
> >
> > I had an INTERBASE 6.01 server running on my W2K machine.

Suddenly,=20

> > one fine day, when I turned my machine on, W2K refused to run

my=20

> > server. I got the message "Error 193: %1 is not a valid Win32=20
> > application". That happened also when I tried to run IBGuard.

Well,=20

> > after that I uninstalled and reinstalled INTERBASE 6.01,

INTERBASE=20

> > 7.0 (Trial), FIREBIRD 1.02, FIREBIRD 1.5 (Alpha) several times

to no=20

> > avail.
> > Needless to say I=B4m frustrated. Has anyone seen this happen?

How did=20

> > you fix it?
>
>
> I've seen it, but couldn't fix it. Probably someone can - I've

seen it

> discussed.
> However, for the short term: What I did (on WinNT) was running IB

server as

> an application (starting ibserver.exe).
>
> --
> Aage J.