Cannot start XServer

[Nikolay Metchev]

I have installed the 4.2.0 version of Cygwin/XFree86 on my Windows XP laptop
using a second monitor and when I tried to run the XServer a window of some
sort appeared and then disappeared leaving this message:
$ ./startxwin.bat
startxwin.bat - Starting on Windows NT/2000
XIO:  fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server
"127.0.0.1:0.0"
XIO:  fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server
"127.0.0.1:0.0"

      after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
      after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
      after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

any ideas what I am doing wrong?