Here are some good documentation.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345108(SQL.90).aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms166049.aspx

http://www.developer.com/article.php/3640771

This article explains the permissions that the SQL Server service account needs to have.

Check if the SQL Server services are running.

Check you are connecting to the correct instance

Check if Remote Connections are enabled

This has lot of options listed.

For backing up the database, the login must be part of db_backupoperator fixed database role. More here

For restoring the database, the login must be part of sysadmin fixed server role....

Nothing much to be done from DBA. Once the cards are installed, DBA needs to ensure that the SQL Service is on the right IP (even though this going wrong...

While trying to upgrade to SQL Server 2005, the "Upgrade Advisor" is failing. Check if this discussion helps.

Open Task Manager and check what is the CPU and Memory usage on the box. Also check which process on the system is utilizing more CPU/memory on the system

If an index is not used, the fragmentation on that does not matter as far as the performance of a query is considered. It would be better to target the...

The output of RESTORE VERIFYONLY is not logged in the SQL Server Error Log. If you are executing the custom stored procedure through a job, the job step output file...

I usually run ROBOCOPY as a SQL Agent Job Step.

Please don't cross post.

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The installation seems to have failed because of the previous installation. You may find this article useful to manual cleanup SQL Server installations.

I was able to download the file from that link

I am not aware of the restrictions on the number of Save points. This article states that there can be "multiple" save points in a transaction.