Thanks, I'm off to give it a try! I'll report back with the results.
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Thanks, I'm off to give it a try! I'll report back with the results.
wait wait wait wait wait wait.......
Ok, I don't have the thread handy yet, but a while back nihil and a few others helped me out with a weird problem. The problem was my installations were telling me I had corrupted cd's which was not the case. I found a temporary workaround by reseting the bios, (switch the jumper for a few minutes or whatever)
I ran into someone else with corropt OS, so we tried to install XP and it gave us corrupt cd errors, and they didn't have corrupted cds. So i thought, well, i will take their HD on my box, install the OS, and give them the HD back.
Bad idea. The error they had with their operating system somehow transferred onto my HD when I plugged it back in. It was weird as hell. Again, this is what I did-
Took the HD out of my functional box,
Put the corrupt HD in my box, and attempted to install windows on it,
Switched them back to normal,
My funcional HD became corrupt with the bad HD's errors.
I know that sorta defys all logic, but it happened. Im thinkin the BIOS went nuts or something. I dont know.
Since I had my box, I would have random restarts, freezes when the BIOS would start up, I thought it was because my CPU was overheating, turns out it wasn't- the mobo software I was using was wrong, and I found a monitor from the mobo website that was correct. I think the MoBo was being a bitch during the install process, giving me crazy errors during usage (windows file protection errors) causing the restarts and weird images during bootup (see thread).
http://www.antionline.com/showthread...with+diagnosis
It does sound like we have similar issues. The first xp installation went fine, went bonkers, and all the installations after that have claimed I have had bad cd's. My workaround is clearing the BIOS, but I have never found the real problem.
Nihil, you're the man, that fixed it! It was indeed the memory sticks, replaced them and now everything's fine. *wipes brow*
Yepps, I had the very same symptoms a couple of years ago, trying to upgrade from Win2000 Server to Win2003 Server... migration failed with "random" file errors on the CD.Quote:
Originally posted here by AngelicKnight
Nihil, you're the man, that fixed it! It was indeed the memory sticks, replaced them and now everything's fine. *wipes brow*
Worked fine once I switched the memory out.
Memory can cause very deceiving problems, even though my Win2000 Server seemed to run fine before the upgrade!
When we built our systems in A+ class they bought some cheap ass ramm and we were supposed to get 256mb but they gave us 2 128 sticks. Long story short you could use either stick individualy but not together. Had the exact same problems described in this thread