What is this error? what does it mean?

Question

I tried to buy an apple laptop from MacMall, but this is the error that shows up:

Apple Product Selected

Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80004005'

[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][TCP/IP Sockets]SQL Server does not exist or access denied.

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Answer 1

The problem is on their end, not yours. You could tell their customer support about it or just find another vendor with a less buggy order page.

Answer 2

That's just a message telling you that their webservers aren't working properly and that they are using a Microsoft operating system.

Maybe you buy somewhere else instead? Imagine this coming up when you want to know why it takes ages to deliver :)

Answer 3

any of them:

SQL server not running

port used by another program

connection error with asp code