I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this problem. On certain
machines we get the standard error when starting the service manually
(or on reboot):

"Error 1503: The service did not respond to the start or control
request in a timely fashion"
and
"Timeout(3000 milliseconds) waiting for the <MyServiceName> to connect"

I added code to the constructor of the service to write a message to
the event log and it was not getting called. So no hidden message boxes
or errors. I changed the service to log on as the admin account instead
of local system and that did not work. The only thing that would work
was to rebuild the service and the referenced assemblies without strong
naming them. The service references 3 assemblies, all of which are
installed to the GAC. I re-versioned the assebles and removed the
strong naming. It works, but why? We have tested this on several
machines without any issues.The machine in which the error occurs is
fast enough. I has more that 1 GB of ram and 3Ghz processor.Also, I am
not sure what actually causes this scenario.I would appreciate any help
or suggestions.