RE: WMI Config Error Installing SQL2K5 Standard Edition

"Eric" wrote:

> I am dealing with a WMI error that completely prevents me from
> installing SQL 2005 on my system.
>
> Almost as soon as I start to install SQL 2005 on my Windows XP Pro
> Version 2002 Service Pack 2 machine at work it pops up a dialog with
> one of the following 2 error messages (they alternate randomly):
>
> The SQL Server System Configuration Checker cannot be executed due to
> WMI configuration on the machine PCF092191 Error:2147500034
> (0x80004002).
>
> The SQL Server System Configuration Checker cannot be executed due to
> WMI configuration on the machine PCF092191 Error:2147749907
> (0x80041013).
>
> After clicking OK the installation just closes.
>
> I also discovered when I load wmimgmt.msc and click Properties on the
> WMI Control, I get the following errors on the General tab, AND it
> does not allow me to click on any other tabs:
>
> Failed to initialize all required WMI classes.
> Win32_Processor: <Null>: No such interface supported
> Win32_WMISetting: Successful
> Security information: Successful
> Win32_OperatingSystem: <Null>: No such interface supported
>
> I have been searching online for days and tried doing virtually
> everything I found that I could understand and nothing works.
> Reinstalling WMI off the XP CD doesn't work, rebuilding the WMI
> repository doesn't work, registering all the WMI DLLs and MOF files
> doesn't work, running all the various scripts to fix WMI that are
> posted all over online doesn't work.
>
> I downloaded the Microsoft WMI Diagnostics tool and ran it. It printed
> a ton of errors in a 466-line report that I can't make head or tail
> of. 6 here, 33 there, 27 over there...almost too many to count. The
> suggestions it gives to fix them range from vague and incomplete to
> incomprehensible. I'll paste those error results into a followup post.
>
> I installed the WMI Tools package and can't figure out what to do with
> any of the tools at all. The only thing I noticed is that when
> examining a section under Win32_Processor, most entries for various
> properties are marked <empty>, while I have seen people discussing
> what I think are those same properties online and talking about seeing
> stuff typed into theirs (such as the HostingModel having
> LocalServiceHost typed in and ImpersonationLevel having 1 typed in).
> But there are so many properties and I'm not sure what should be typed
> into all of them or if I'm even looking in the right place.
>
> I've seen some suggestions in WMI documentation that not all WMI
> errors may be related to WMI itself at all, which I think might be the
> case here, but I don't know. Some material said DCOM may be the
> problem, but I didn't have much luck figuring out how to fix that
> either. From the WMI Diagnostics it looks like there may be multiple
> errors of different kinds, but if it's that bad, I don't know how my
> computer's been working at all.
>
> I've been using this computer for 9 months and had no major problems
> with it, although I did have a problem installing Microsoft Windows
> Genuine Advantage Notification, for which Microsoft sent me a script
> that fixed it. One other person here at work is suffering from this
> same WMI error, but most people have been able to install SQL 2005
> here with no problem.
>
> My boss does not want me to just do a full XP reinstall. He wants me
> to identify the specific problem and fix it. If this was my home
> computer I wouldn't spend so much time banging my head over this
> incomprehensible problem. But a full reinstall is not really an option
> for me in this case, unless maybe Microsoft says that's the only way
> to fix it.
>
> I am available to deal with this issue during 9 to 5 eastern time
> Monday to Friday.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help...
> Eric
>
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