Hi,

Thanks for your questions.

From your descriptions, I know you are trying to install SQL Server 2005
Express Edition, which was bundled with VS.NET 2005 RTM. I understood the
scenario as below

1. Since SQL Server setup has detected imcompatible components, what's the
error message?
2. You have used Cleanup Tools to remove the previous installed beta
version SQL Server 2005 Express Edition
3. Have you also tried self-installer but failed with error message below

[11/02/05,10:48:19] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft SQL Server
2005 Express Edition x86 is not installed.
[11/02/05,16:10:53] Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition x86: [2]
Component Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition x86 returned an
unexpected value.

If I have misunderstood your concern, please feel free to point it out.

For now please confirm you have uninstalled following components in the
Add/Remove Programs firstin the exact order shown below before beginning to
install any version of Visual Studio 2005:

- Remove "Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition"
- Remove "Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Tools Express Edition"
- Remove "Microsoft SQL Native Client"
- Remove "Microsoft Visual Studio 64bit Prerequisites Beta" (This step is
needed only if Visual Studio is installed on a 64-bit machine)
- Remove "Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office System 2005 Runtime
Language Pack" (This step is not needed if you have only the English
Edition)
- Remove "Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office System 2005 Runtime
Beta"
- Remove "Microsoft Device Emulator 1.0 Beta"
- Remove "Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 2.0 Beta"
- Remove "Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 1.0"
- Remove "Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional" or other related IDE
installs such as (Visual Studio Professional/Standard/Enterprise
Architect/Team Suite, etc.)
- Remove "Microsoft Document Explorer 2005 Language Pack" (This step is
not needed if you have only the English Edition)
- Remove "Microsoft Document Explorer 2005" (This step is needed for
post-Beta2 builds)
- Remove "Microsoft SQL Mobile 2005 Development Tools"
- Remove "Microsoft 64-bit SDK" (This step is only needed if Visual Studio
is installed on a 64-bit machine)
- Remove "Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Remote Debugger (x64)" (This step
is needed only if Visual Studio is installed on a 64-bit machine)
- Remove "Microsoft MDAC 2.8 SP1" (This step is needed only if you are
running Windows 2000)
- Remove "Microsoft MSXML 6 SDK and Parser"
- Remove "Microsoft Visual J# .NET Redistributable 2.0 Beta Language Pack"
(This step is not needed if you have only the English Edition)
- Remove "Microsoft Visual J# Redistributable Package 2.0 Beta"
- Ensure all Visual Studio 2005 products have been removed from your
system
- Remove "Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Beta Language pack" (This step is
not needed if you have only the English Edition)
- Remove "Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Beta"

After this, please perform the steps below and let me know whether it works

1. Run the SQL Express standalone installer,
2. Select mixed mode authentication, and set a strong password for SA.  

If the above fails, would you please package the log files folder of SQL
Server Expression setup (C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Setup
Bootstrap\LOG) and send them to me? I understand the information may be
sensitive to you, my direct email address is v-mingqc@microsoft.com, you
may send the file to me directly and I will keep secure.

Sincerely yours,

Michael Cheng
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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