[Khevor]

I finally managed to get everything up and running and heaven forfend, I can also stay connected. It was a two part deal (and both answers *are* on the boards as Arcalyn said.

The first part was a corrupted database. I don't know what happened to it but by dropping the eq db in mySQL and redoing that step (as per readme), I was able to log on but wasn't able to stay connected for any longer than a few seconds before being booted.

This second part was a post here in the forum but it was a little difficult to find. I should've used the keyword ld or linkdead or something instead of disconnected or kicked because it took some time to find it. I had to increase my datarate (as per datarate.txt in the eq directory) from 5.0 to 10.0 (again this was in an already existing post but it was difficult to find).

Now everything works exactly as it should. I just need to use one of the available databases to populate Norrath and I'll be all set.

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I tried several other things to correct this problem as well - also in the forums such as deleted .opt and .ini files as well as eqgame.exe and repatching.

In short, I have been reading post after post after post for the last four hours and fifteen minutes or so. There really *has* to be a better way to index these posts.

My thanks to Arcalyn for at least telling me the problem was solved and it actually was in the posts somewhere.

Zorprime, try what I did and see if that helps.