Hi Sakthi

Thanks for looking an my entry

1. The service account is a domain account (ie DOMAIN\username). A requirement for SQL clusters ..... let me know if i have misinterpreted your clarification question.

2. The SQL service account has not been changed nor has the password, in fact the password is set to not expire.

3. Good question ...... (i checked this via the registry / add remove programs, if there is a better way let me know but ..... ) on node1 there is a patch for :

Hotfix 2153 for SQL Server Notification Services 2005

That does not exist on node2.

Everything else looks to be the same.

4. No I haven't ....... as its a production box .... I have been really cautious.

I was hoping to find a way to recreate the problem so that i could test fixing it without doing so directly on production.

Or perhaps chat with someone who had had to do this recently on one of their dev / test / prod systems.

Cheers

Tim