MySQL won't start

[TrevDog]

Hello, I'm trying to install Tickets CAD. I've done through the steps thus far, but now I'm stuck. I try to start MySQL in the XAMPP control panel (v3.1.0), and it says "Attempting to start MySQL service..." but nothing happens. Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance!

[Altrea]

Hi TrevDog,

please tell us the full contents of the XAMPP control panel statusmessage window.

best wishes,
Altrea

[TrevDog]

I'm sorry, I'm still new and woefully inexperienced with this kind of thing... I'm not sure how to access the statusmessage window (unless it's the window at the bottom of the control panel). After waiting for about an hour it says "XAMPP MySQL Service is already running on port 3306".

I set up the ALEIR program using MySQL using that port, but neither the ALEIR program nor MySQLAdmin are running (unless it's hiding somewhere).

[Altrea]

I'm not sure how to access the statusmessage window (unless it's the window at the bottom of the control panel)

It is. I don't know exactly what the official designated name of that message box is

[TrevDog]

This is what I get-

18:25:03 [main] Initializing Control Panel
18:25:03 [main] Windows Version: Windows Vista Home Premium SP2 32-bit
18:25:03 [main] XAMPP Version: 1.8.1
18:25:03 [main] Control Panel Version: 3.1.0 3.1.0 [ Compiled: September 20th 2012 ]
18:25:03 [main] Running with Administrator rights - good!
18:25:03 [main] XAMPP Installation Directory: "c:\xampp\"
18:25:03 [main] Checking for prerequisites
18:25:03 [main] All prerequisites found
18:25:03 [main] Initializing Modules
18:25:03 [Apache] XAMPP Apache is already running on port 80
18:25:03 [Apache] XAMPP Apache is already running on port 443
18:25:03 [mysql] MySQL Service detected with wrong path
18:25:03 [mysql] Change XAMPP MySQL settings or
18:25:03 [mysql] Uninstall/disable the other service manually first
18:25:03 [mysql] Found Path: C:/mysql/bin/mysqld-nt.exe
18:25:03 [mysql] Expected Path: c:\xampp\mysql\bin\mysqld.exe --defaults-file=c:\xampp\mysql\bin\my.ini mysql
18:25:03 [mysql] XAMPP MySQL Service is already running on port 3306
18:25:03 [main] Starting Check-Timer
18:25:03 [main] Control Panel Ready
18:25:59 [mysql] Attempting to start MySQL service...

[Altrea]

18:25:03 [mysql] Found Path: C:/mysql/bin/mysqld-nt.exe

Well, there is obviously another windows service for mysql registered.
get rid of this windows service and your XAMPP mysql should work just fine.

you can do this in your commandline (with enhanced administration rights):

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sc delete mysql