Re: ADO failing on XP - untangling MDAC and Jet DLLs

Hi again,

Dave Blake wrote:

> A test app has shown that MDAC is broken - it can not create an
> ADOConnection object.
>
> I had some confusion whether XP SP2 had been installed. It turns out
> that the service pack files have been download but not installed,
> original XP is the OS. Tried installing MDAC 2.8 again, Dutch version
> this time (had previously tried the English version on a Dutch PC).
> Installation was a success but MDAC still broken.
>

sounds very strange. did you try to install those files? or "deinstall"
them, whatever XP allows you to do

> Ran the most recent Component Checker untility (v2.0), and this time
> is did not crash! The results from checker say 2.8 RTM is installed,
> no errors. So why is MDAC not working?

i see 2 possibilities. Either the Component Checker is failing, or
worse, there's something in XP failing

>
> Does MDAC need registering or something?

AFAIK not

> The right files seem to be in the right places. The Checker (v 2.0)
> does not seem to return registry info anymore, so I can't tell if
> there is a problem there.
>
> Any suggestions (bar installing XP SP2 and hence MDAC 2.8 SP1)? Would
> anyone look at the checker output and see if they can see the problem?

i hate to say it, but at this point i would reinstall the whole system
from scratch :(

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