IIS 5.1, WinXP and ASP.NET 2.0

[JamieHowarth0]

Hi guys,

Headache. My local dev machine running Win XP Pro SP3 with IIS 5.1 is driving me nuts.
Every time (and I mean every time) I try and access an ASP.NET site on http://localhost/, IIS crashes on me. To get it working, I have to kill the inetinfo.exe process, then go into Services and restart IIS Admin and World Wide Web Publishing services.

I have tried uninstalling/reinstalling ASP.NET to IIS but this hasn't worked.
Application logs have nothing in them except that the relevant services have died - no error codes or anything. The closest I get is that it's a fault in webengine.dll, fault address 0x0002d640, and Google is returning zilch when searching for these terms.

Does anyone have any other guesses? I'm trying to find a needle in a haystack.

Cheers,

codegecko

[Frinavale]

Make sure that your frameworks aren't corrupted.
I had a similar issue (not exactly the same) a while back and it turned out to be that something was corrupted in my 1.1 Framework. I had to uninstall all of my frameworks to fix the problem.

I don't know if this will help and since it's a long and very annoying process I would recommend searching for other possible fixes first.

[JamieHowarth0]

I eventually uninstalled .NET 1.1 and .NET 2.0, followed by re-installing IIS (which seemed to be the consensus when Googling around), which did seem to work.
However, the problem seems to be re-surfacing, which is highly annoying - fortunately it's not major, as I've now managed to make most of my projects run on Cassini without hassle.