Changing to Admin/reboot did not solve. Creating a new password and setting the service to use that QBDataServiceUser33 account and pass did not solve though svc was happy using that acct and not local.
Startup and recovery options were all already changed to the values you suggested during my troubleshooting.
I will try a chkdsk and other than that I am out of ideas.
I don't want to spend hours on support for something I know is a simple issue- if only someone could provide the answer or suggestion. I will just run QB itself on the server as host and have to re-launch it every time the server has to reboot. Disappointed there is not a higher level of support here on the forums. Thx for trying.
