automatic startup of an oracle instance on windows NT

Hi,
  I hav oracle 8.0.3 installed on a windows NT server. I have the default ORCL instance. I created a new GDAT instance. I was succesfully able to create the databae, tablespaces, users etc. The services OracleServiceGDAT and OracleStartGDAT are marked AUTOMATIC STARTUP in the Services applet of the control panel. The differences between the ORCL database and GDAT database are that, GDAT's pfile initGDAT.ora is not in the default location and GDAT database has ARCHiving enabled.
  When I reboot the NT server, ORCL instance comes up automatically. The GDAT instance does not. The GDATALRT.LOG does not have any entries indicating that an attemp was made to start the instance. I have to manually start SVRMGR30, connect internal and startup specifying the pfile.   Does anyone know what I should be doing to avoid manually running SVRMGR30 everytime I reboot the NT server?

thanks in advance
reddy

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