Hiya Jess

What version? If 6/6.5:

"If you have changed the Windows NT Server computer name, but not the SQL Server name, and the @@SERVERNAME variable is neither NULL nor matches the Windows NT Server computer name, you must run the sp_drop server and sp_addserver , LOCAL commands to alter the SQL Server name. For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

ARTICLE-ID: Q140683
TITLE : INF: Run Task May Cause 1722 Error"


>When starting SQL Server, it gives me an error 1722 - (The RPC Server is unavailable) occured while performing this service operation on the MSSQLServer service.
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>Please help.
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>TIA

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