Unable to start Oracle Services on NT

[SANJAY_G]

I installed Oracle 7.3.4.0 on Windows NT 4.0
I am unable to Start OracleService and OracleStart services. Getting following error...

Could not start the OracleSrviceORAM service on \\OMS1.
Error 0126 : The specified module could not be found.

What may be the problem ?? Appreciate all the help.

Sanjay

[LND]

check trace and log files (under %oraclehome%\rdbms73(?)\trace and log I believe).
Try to start database with svrmgr(73 may be svrmgr30 or 23, check in bin\) and see logs/trace for errors.

To start DB with svrmgrl:

set ORACLE_SID=<your sid>
svrmgr30
connect internal/oracle(or other password, default is oracle)
startup

Other 'low level' commands in execution order:

startup nomount
alter database mount
alter database open

and see what is going on. May be have to reinstall oracle binaries, configure registry, fix OS or hardware...

[denevge]

already recreated the services with oradim73 ?

sometimes this helps

Gert

[TerryD]

Make sure you're path has your ORACLE_HOME/bin directory included in it. If not, try a reboot.

Possibly delete and recreate service as suggested.

(LND - You need the ORACLESrvcSID Service running in order to connect to the instance - without this it will fail as soon as svrmgrl starts).

[LND]

Yes, Oracle Services must be running (oradim has to be used), as well as account for those services must have all necessary rights - usually has.

What else makes sense to setup/check are:

oracle_sid in NT registry
NLS_LANG to american_america.... both in registry and in create database.
path to oracle_home\bin is good thing, but not very critical(?)
oracle.key in bin: THAT ONE IS CRITICAL, if exists in 7.3. Check and set its contents to correct oracle home.