W3SVC starting AND hanging!

Forgive me if this has been answered; I can't seem to find a solution
anywhere in my searches.

We have W2K Advanced Server. The W3SVC WWW service (& the SMTP
service) is coming up as hung on starting in the event log, and all
services dependent on that service fail, naturally. However, given 4
more minutes wait time, W3SVC (& SMTP) comes up as "Started". The
dependent services never recover, however, even when set to do so.
I'm told the services used to work perfectly, and now they don't.

Now, this ONLY happens on booting; manual stops & starts work
perfectly. If I boot with W3SVC set to manual (& all services that
call it set to manual), reboot, then manually start the service, the
W3SVC service & all others start just fine, with no event log errors,
no delays.

I've tried debugging programs, but haven't found anything yet. Is a
reinstall of IIS warranted, or is there another solution?

If I understand correctly, on boot up the IISAdmin Service and the
dependent services (WWW, SMTP, FTP, NTP etc) have a problem. However, if
they are all set to manual and then started the services start with no
problem.

Generally if the services take a while to start they are conflicting with
another service running on the box. Have you recently installed any new
software?

Do you have any anti-virus software running?
Do you have an firewall problems installed?
Do you have any 3rd applications that would try to use Port 80?
Do you have ISA installed?

Thank you for choosing Microsoft
Miriam Green
Microsoft Developer Support

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