Software Deployment : MS SQL 2005 Express Edition – SP3

Hi,

I am trying to package MS SQL 2005 Express Edition – SP3.

Before that I was performing some testing as it has various MSI inbuilt.

I first run the setup.exe and installed this with default settings. Looked fine than I uninstalled it.

Now on same machine when I try to run it with following command it fails and crash my machine.

Setup.exe /qb ADDLOCAL=ALL INSTANCENAME=SQLEXPRESS

It runs the setup for few minutes and after that when it tries to start SQL server it suddenly reboots my machine and then I fail to restart my machine.

It restart till login screen and again reboot. [:@]

It is happening again and again.

I also tried many other ways to install with setup.exe but it fails in all way.

Also, I tried to run following 4 msi:

1. SqlSupport.msi –> Installs fine
2. sqlncli.msi –> Installs fine
3. SqlWriter.msi –> Installs fine
4. SqlRun.msi – When I run this msi, it install for 1 minutes and when it tries to start SQL server it suddenly reboots my machine and then again I fail to restart my machine.

What could be missing here [&:]

Could this be due to the fact that MS SQL Server was first installed on this machine and then uninstalled. And then on this machine I am trying to run it again with silent switches and other parameters?

I will really appreciate all the comments.

Thanks