Strange ODBC Administrator error

Question

Hi All,
I installed Ora7 on a NT server with 2 Pentium 4 CPUs. Everything worked fine until I tried to use the ODBC Administrator. I got the following error:
'The ODBC Resource DLL (C:\WINNT\System32\odbcint.dll) is a different version that the administrator (C:\WINNT\System32\ODBCAD32.dll)'
Has anyone seen this before? I'v tried reinstalling the Oracle ODBC driver but it didn't help.
Any help will be greatly appreciated!
ils

Answer 1

This error code means this:
ERROR_BAD_EXE_FORMAT
193 (0xC1)
%1 is not a valid Win32 application.
If you are talking about ODBCAD32.exe, then it looks like the installation of the driver mis-registered a 32 bit driver ad 64 bit or vise-versa.  It is trying to load either a 32 bit driver from the 64 bit version (C:\windows\system32\odbcad32.exe) or trying to load a 64 bit driver from the 32 bit version (C:\windows\syswow64\odbcad32.exe).  As the driver listing is determined by registry keys that are set on installation of the driver, it is likely that the driver installer has a fault which is causing it to be mis-registered with ODBC.
I would take this up with Oracle from here, I suppose.
Hope that helps,
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