Thank to the excellent article by Ramu Konidena

http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlblog/archive/2009/07/17/how-to-configure-sql-server-to-listen-on-different-ports-on-different-ip-addresses.aspx

It helped me.

I had trouble stating SQLSERVER 2005 for two days. I did ipconfig/all it listed my IP xxx.xx.x.xx. I went to configuration...

Tha log file has the build version as below:

2009-08-13 22:19:10.96 Server Microsoft SQL Server 2005 - 9.00.1406.00 (Intel X86)

Mar 3 2007 18:40:02

Copyright...

Sorry, the IP address is a typo.

I did check netstat -oabn I did not find anything running for sqlserver. However sqlbrowser was listed.