Excel wont start ?

[Andy]

I have Office 2000 installed. However, Excel 2000 has just stopped working.
I can load word 2000, powerpoint etc ok. When i try to start excel i get the
splash screen for half a second, then a windows error dong.

I have noticed in control panel that on my SCSI and RAID controllers that
the Adaptec 2000S Ultra160 SCSI RAID Controller has a yellow exclamation
next to it. The only reason i mention this is because on this SCSI
controller it mentions 'Digital Signer' as being MS Windows XP Publisher',
and i wondered if it was this which was preventing Excel from working.

Should i do a 'detect and repair', but how would i do that if i cannot even
open Excel ?

I have the original CD, should i re-install, i was hoping for an easier way
! ?

Cheers
Andy

 

[Dave Peterson]

I don't know anything about your SCSI/RAID controllers, but these might describe
you problem.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q270125
OFF2000: Program Quits Immediately After Installing Project or Visio (Q270125)

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q255503
OFF2000: Program Quits Immediately After Starting When SR-1/SR-1a Update Is
Applied (Q255503)

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q236592
OFF2000: Error Messages Starting Office Program, or Program Immediately Quits on
Windows XP, Windows NT 4.0, or Windows 2000 (Q236592)

And Chip Pearson has some notes to help diagnose this kind of problem at:
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/StartupErrors.htm