[dba-SQLServer] Can't Register Server

Are you trying to register it as a Windows Authentication or via the SA 
account?

Charlotte Foust wrote On 6/8/2004 8:21 AM:

>I reinstalled SQL 2000 last night, but I can't register the blasted
>server.  When I try, it comes back and says it fails because the
>connection is open.  This is developer edition on a stand-alone laptop.
>I've run into this with every installation of SQL Server on this
>machine, although one upon a time I had it working ... Pre-DSL.  My DSL
>modem (now replaced with a router) broke SQL on my laptop, so I
>uninstalled SQL and have never since been able to get it reinstalled and
>working.  Any suggestions?
>  
>


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-Francisco