Hi Sergy,

Thank you for your reply.
Anyway I have already resolve the problem using the work around from the following link:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q154628/

Rene

>What error do you get?
>Does anything already use port 1433 on that PC? You can use free TCPView utility from http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/tcpview.shtml to check that.
>
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>>I have a strange problem in MS SQL 2000.
>>I cannot start the sql server services if I used port 1433.
>>But I have tried to change the port to 1435 and start the SQL Server service it works fine.
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