by blaklite » Thu Jan 21, 2010 7:17 pm
Hi I am having a similar problem. Helium will just not start-up. I get a spalsh screen, words flash up in the top left corner then pow, nothing.
I have followed the tips etc. uninstalled, deleted files, clened reg etc (+rebooted) many times but always fails on startup. when it says it is performing the Database check. also in the "log/mif" file the last line mentions an error.
General Error: Error creating object. Please verify that the Microsoft Data Access Components 2.1 (or later) have been properly installed Exception
Now as I understand it x64 does not have a version of te MDAC to install, so that is not an option.
I am tryiing with Helium version "7.0.0.7856", on Win 7 x64, I have MySQL installed (tho not started) also have SQL 2008 Express installed, to see if it had any M$ bits that might help, it didnt.
I also have Visual Studio 2008 SP1 installed if thats any help cos I know that has a lot of data access bits in it( although I uninstalled most of them, cos I prefer MySQL, thats why I installd the SQL 2008 to see if the missing bits would be installed)
Please, any help would be appreciated.