Okay, a co-worker typed this up for me to post. I am simply cutting and pasting from e-mail...quote:I just built a new Windows 2003 box, fresh install. The only things I installed after that was ...

If when installing SolidWorks, Microsoft SQL Server fails to install, first change block sizes and the instance name and see. More solutions here.

More notes from the field on installing the new version of SQL Sever.