The admin account to import the user profiles from AD has had a
password change. ever since the password change, we changed in the
central Admiminstration Farm settings and checked in SQL Database,
restarted services, changed password in IIS App Pool, etc. for some
reason it fails to import from the AD. I get the following error when
trying to put in the new password under the account settings
configure
profile Import.

This page is not encrypted for secure communication. User names,
passwords, and any other information will be sent in clear text. For
more information about how to secure the pages on this server farm,
see
the SharePoint Portal Server Administrator's Guide.

An error has occurred while accessing SQL database or system
resources.
If this is the first time you have seen this message, please try
again
later. If this problem persists, please contact your administrator.

Settings from the following sections have been successfully saved :
(1)
Source

Also on the Configure Farm settings i get the following error on
saving
the new password for Configure Database Administration Account:

Error accessing database. Verify that the database server name and
the
instance name (if present) are correct. Also, ensure the
configuration
database administration account has sufficient permissions on the
server or instance and the service corresponding to your SQL Server
instance is running.

We have a training portal that uses the same account and after
reflecting the password changes to that server, it works perfectly.
It's been really frustrating as Our network analyst and I have been
pondering for answer to this particular problem.