Database Connection Lost

Jeff@checkpoint has answered this question so many times it's starting to sound like a bad country song. See his latest post: Re: RMS and PcCharge Payment Server from 4/9/10, thanks.

Thank you for the response, I have Jeff's very helpful guide. I followed the steps he provided.

The only thing, is that SQL Server 2005 doesn't appear to be on every register, and on one of the registers, it shows nothing in the client protocols. It won't let me into surface area config...gives me an error "Could not load file or assembly "Microsoft.SqlServer.CustomControls." Also, in the SQL Server Service Manager, on some POS stations it lists twice, one as the name and another with \MSSMLBIZ, the other ones are MSSQLServer. I came into an existing RMS setup, I'm trying to make things run smooth. We had to replace PCs and install RMS, I'm wondering if this is the issue.

Jeff's guide is perfect, if I had things setup right in the first place.

Thanks for your help.

"Matt Hurst" wrote:

On the workstations that are missing some components, try uninstalling an reinstalling POS.

We had a client with the same connection lost issue on any card transactions. We tried all the suggestions by Microsoft including verify SQL Client Network settings. Still had the error.

We came across