Does Apache start without eAccelerator ?
yes
How are you loading eAccelerator ?
i put this in php.ini
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[eaccelerator]
zend_extension_ts="eaccelerator.dll"
eaccelerator.cache_dir = "E:\applis\php442\eaccelerator\tmp"
eaccelerator.shm_size="64"
eaccelerator.enable="1"
eaccelerator.optimizer="1"
eaccelerator.check_mtime="1"
eaccelerator.debug="0"
eaccelerator.filter=""
eaccelerator.shm_max="0"
eaccelerator.shm_ttl="0"
eaccelerator.shm_prune_period="0"
eaccelerator.shm_only="0"
eaccelerator.compress="1"
eaccelerator.compress_level="9"
eaccelerator.keys="shm_and_disk"
eaccelerator.sessions="shm_and_disk"
eaccelerator.content="shm_and_disk"
eaccelerator.admin.name="admin"
eaccelerator.admin.password=""
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and this in httpd.conf
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Alias "/eaccelerator" "E:/applis/php442/eaccelerator"

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes
AllowOverride All
#Order allow,deny
Allow from all

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and i enabled eaccelarator with eaccelerator.php