Problem Installing/Running IIS on XP Pro

[Guest]

IIS (5.1) seems to install properly but will not serve pages.
- Explorer reports "Page cannot be displayed" and "500 Internal server error"
- Event viewer reports "The server failed to load application
'/LM/W3SVC/1/ROOT'. The error was 'Class not registered'."

Stuff I've already (unsuccessfully) tried:
- Disabling Windows Firewall
- Disabling Norton Internet Security Firewall
- Reboot in Safe Mode
- I'm satisfied that it's not a firewall issue
- Removed and re-installed IIS
- Specifically registered W3SVC.DLL ("regsvr w3svc.dll" from command prompt)
- Checked (Checkkbox) Control Panel -> Windows Firewall -> Advanced Tab ->
Settings -> Web server (HTTP)
- Checked (viewed) Registry Entries - Certain things have an onimous
"(value not set)" data field but I don't know if that is the culprit and
couldn't fathom a guess as to what an appropriate value might be

I have successfully installed / set up / run / used IIS on a number of
other computers so I'm not brand new to this - but not on XP Professional.
I'm running out of things to check and any suggestions would be welcome.

- Terry R

 

[Guest]

FYI -

Finally, I reinstalled XP (on a brand new Dell GX620), using the upgrade
option with online search for updates. I had to call Microsoft for an
additional activation key, but after wasting several hours of scouring the
knowledge base, talking to Microsoft Support several times, talking to Dell
support several times (they were volleying me back and forth disclaiming
responsibility), trying everything I could think of, and then re-installing
from the CD, I got it to work. Oddly enough, even after re-installation the
system couldn't find "hpzrp307.dll" in the i386 folder and wasn't able to
connect via Internet. Oh well...