Hello,

Scott Pickett wrote:

> Under Windows 2000, I downloaded v1.5 and unzipped it
> into c:\fb15\. From c:\vb15\bin\, I did the
> following:
>
> set INTERBASE=c:\fb15\
> instsvc install %INTERBASE% -auto
> instreg install %INTERBASE%

[...]

> Statement failed, SQLCODE = -904
> unavailable database

Looks like you're still using old client library "gds32.dll" (from
Firebird 1.0 or Interbase 6.0). Copy gds32.dll and fbclient.dll from
%INTERBASE%\bin to Windows' System32 directory. Don't forget to make a
backup of current gds32.dll, just in case you would like to switch back to
FB1/IB6.

HTH
Achim