Problems running SP3 with no previous SP's installed

From: Jason (jason.jacobs@gartner.com)
Date: 01/28/03 

From: "Jason" <jason.jacobs@gartner.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 08:04:00 -0800

We are having the same exact problem with only one of our
SQL2000 servers. The rest all worked but on this one
server we keep getting the "setup was unable to validate
your password" error. We have tried using the valid sa
password, and have tried using windows authentication.
Neither worked.

And it is not an issue of us entering a wrong password, as
we have verified its valid.

Please someone help!

>-----Original Message-----
>We are repeatedly encountering errors running SQL2000
SP3,
>stating "setup was unable to validate your password",
>while executing the SP3 sqlsetup.exe with SQL
>Authentication, using the valid 'sa' password.
>
>We've heard of other cases where a similar problem was
>encountered and fixed by installing SQL2000 SP2 prior to
>installing SP3, but I wondered if anyone here knows the
>root cause of this, and whether SP2 will definitely fix
it.
>
>Thanks,
>MarkG
>markg@askme.com
>.
>

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