Sharley wrote:Sorry, In 1.7.0 my is my.cnf not my.ini - you don't have a my.ini as well do you?
Yes I do have an \xampp\mysql\bin\my.ini file too
Try a reboot and see if it helps.
Done that several times already, I'm setting up this (new) machine.
You didn't have another installation of XAMPP or MySQL on the new PC did you?
Nope.
Have a look in the \xampp\mysql\data\*.err file (usually the name of your PC the * refers to) - mostly gobbledygook but sometimes there is a clue.
Yes, well, it reports the crash: 110126 10:24:51 - mysqld got exception 0xc0000005 ;
Can't find much usefull on it though.
Check the Windows Event Viewer/Applications for clues also.
Nothing much to see there.
If forgot to mention two things:
- I couldn't install the control panel as a service either, after some tries I gave up and just put a link to it in program files/startup, it does not run as a service but I don't care that much about the control panel not doing that.
- Few years ago I had about the same problem with apache as service. I just kept checking Svc and start on the panel and after a few weeks it went away and started working, talk about weird.
I guess I will so again.
Hey Sharley thanks a bunch for your great help.
Ok, now back to Melbourne on tv.