PT4 Not starting up

[Martijnwest]

Hi ho,

After quite a break of playing poker, decided to try and pick it up a little again.
Dusted off PT4 and tried to start it up. After getting it up to date, nothing happened. It just didn't pop up.
Tried to start it again and I got the message that PT4 was already running. Shut it down with taskmanager and tried again, but no luck.
Uninstalled and redownloaded it, but still not working.
There's no error messages or anything, and I'm closer to a computer disaster rather than genius, so could use a little help!
Any ideas?

Regards,
Martijn

[kraada]

Is PostgreSQL still installed on your machine? If you click Start type services.msc and click on it when it appears do you see the PostgreSQL service in the list? If so can you start it?

[Martijnwest]

Is PostgreSQL still installed on your machine? If you click Start type services.msc and click on it when it appears do you see the PostgreSQL service in the list? If so can you start it?

Tried it and got Error 1053; The service couldn't properly answer the start- or sendcommand.
Should I try and reinstall PostgreSQL?

[kraada]

Click Start, type Event Viewer and click on it when it appears. Expand the Windows Logs and click on Application. There should be errors in the top center pane relating to PostgreSQL. Click on one and tell me what it says the error is (in the bottom center pane).

[Martijnwest]

- <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
- <System>
<Provider Name="PostgreSQL" />
<EventID Qualifiers="0">0</EventID>
<Level>4</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2014-08-20T14:06:59.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>563836</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>Martijn</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
- <EventData>
<Data>Timed out waiting for server startup</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>

Is that the one?

[kraada]

Are there any others? That doesn't tell us much by itself.

[Martijnwest]

It's only the same one over and over again

[kraada]

Look for Secondary Logon in the services list. Make sure it's set to automatic and running and let me know if that helps or not.

[Martijnwest]

Done, no change sadly

[kraada]

Then please attach the last few files in the C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\x.y\data\pg_log folder to a support ticket and we'll look into it further for you. Replace x.y with whatever your PostgreSQL version is (and it might be in Program Files (x86) or elsewhere if you installed it in a different folder when you installed it).