OK, since I'm running Windows XP, what I see when right-clicking the winmysqladmin.exe icon in the taskbar seems to be slightly different than what you're seeing in Windows 98 (for instance, "Show Me" & "WinNT"). Thus, just use your best judgement here & translate what I'm telling you here with what you see on your screen (it shouldn't be terribly different; even if so, you're not going to break anything; you'll be uninstalling MySQL & re-installing it anyway).
First off, start by dropping your current eq database. Do that by going to your ...\MySQL\bin directory from a command prompt window & typing in:
drop database eq; (this is assuming you named your database eq). For more explicit instructions on backing up & restoring your databases, click
here.
When you right-click on the winmysqladmin.exe icon in the taskbar, you want to shutdown the server before uninstalling MySQL. The reason for this is because when I uninstalled MySQL in the past without doing this, upon rebooting I was getting an error message stating a certain file/setting could not be found (since the service thought it should still be running). After you shut down the server, right-click the taskbar icon again & see if it gives you an option to shut anything else down. Do that until the only option left to shut anything down is the tool itself. Do so. Now uninstall MySQL.
Next use the Windows Find tool (in your Start Menu or just hit the F3 key) & do a search for files named:
my.ini. Once done, delete all instances of this file (should be only one). Repeat by searching for files named
my.cnf. Delete if any are present. Reboot.
After rebooting, re-install MySQL. Reboot again. The winmysqladmin.exe should start up automatcally prompting you for a user name & password (if it doesn't, go to your ...\MySQL\bin\ folder & double-click winmysqladmin.exe. Enter in the exact same password (matching case) as you did in your
db.ini file (in your EQEmu folder).
Once you've done all this, go back to
my instructions for setting up a local server, starting at step # 13. Everything else you'll need to do will be covered there.
Just one more thing, what you're saying here:
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Originally Posted by MagicalRage
I can get all the way to the screen where i can see my server is locked. I tried to log in anyway and it says something about my luclin files being in the wrong place .. or unable to be located .. im not sure what to do about that ... i uninstalled all of EQ and reinstalled just to the EQEMu\EQGame file that you have mentioned but i still get that message. It tried to load me into the server anyway and i get a 1017 error and from there im clueless still.
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... looks like you may be using files that are incompatible with EQEmu. Did you run the EQEmu patcher I have listed in steps 8 & 9 of my
setup walkthrough? If, after doing the above, you still get this error, run the (EQEmu) patcher again to be sure. Make sure to double-check all of your EQEmu config files (
db.ini,
LoginServer.ini,
Boot5zones.bat,
MiniLoginAccounts.ini,
eqhost.txt, &
datarate.txt) first! I know that the EQEmu patcher will change your
eqhost.txt file, so if you don't double-check these, you won't be able to connect to your own local server.
Also, since you said you re-installed EQ (not really necessary, by the way, if you'd followed my instructions in steps 1-4, you already had an updated backup to copy from), you
did make sure to patch it again using the EQLive patcher first, right? You should probably review all the steps I have listed in my
setup guide to be sure you haven't skipped over something. All of these steps need to be done in precisely the order I have them listed. If not, there will be... problems.
