Figuring out why tomcat won't start

[Duncan Krebs]

Hey, 
Could anyone give me some pointers on how to find an error that is causing tomcat not 
to start. I'm using 4x on Windows, when I got to a prompt in the bin folder and type 
'startup' the new DOS window opens for a split second and then closes right away. Most 
likely some error in my server.xml. However when I go to my logs folder no new logs 
are being generated, so I don't really know how to troubleshoot. Any ideas?