I had an unusual problem installing Win 2K pro, But the Anandtech TeAm comes through again! Up and Runnning!

[Tarca]

I have never run into this before. I have install 2000 dozens of time but have never run into this issue before.:disgust:

I have tried different disks and booting from CD and the 4 bootdisks.

This is and AMD XP1500 on a MSI k7T266 pro2 Mobo and a 60gig WD HD.

Everytime I try and run setup it tells me that this file or that file is corrupt. I have the HD and the CD on different channels and also have tried with my cache turned off.

Any ideas would be apprieciated!

Thank you.

 

[bacillus]

is your cd clean??
you can try copying the install files to hdd then doing the install from there!

 

[EvilWobbles]

Have you tried the CD and HD on the same channel? You could have a bad IDE connector on the mobo.

 

[Saltin]

Ive seen this happen a bunch. It's the CDROM.
Some models of CDROM's just wont install 2k, I don't have a comprehensive list of the models, but this is fact.
The messed up part, is that the CDROM's are not listed as incompatible, because once 2k is actually installed, they work fine. They just wont install it in the first place.

I got around this by using a different CDROM to do the install. I doubt this is related to anything else. Try out a different drive (maybe a friends if you don't have a second available).

 

[Thor86]

Sometimes it's bad ram. I've had two workstations that couldn't install, and when I replaced the ramsticks it worked no problems. Think about it, when it copies it has to go through cd to ram to disk.

 

[KCjeeper]

I once had a problem like this, and the only thing that worked for me was changing the MB FSB to 100(200), and 2K installed just fine. Bumped it back up to 133 afterwards, and it worked fine.

 

[RobSan]

I'm with Thor........had the very same thing happen trying to install XP from scratch on a new computer, thought it might be the CD, tried a W2K CD that I used to install on my personal PC, same thing. Swapped out the RAM for some that I knew was perfect, and bingo XP installed without a hitch. Thing is, with the bad RAM both XP and 2K would make it about 60% of the way through before the corrupt files error would appear.

 

[Tarca]

The fix on this one...

Medic suggested that I restore the defaults in the Bios and Bingo were cooking with Fire!

Thanks Medic!

 

[desy]

Uggh
This is what I'm getting wheather I try to install ME or 2000 crash on diff files in diff places. One last time at bios default then I'm gonna ramp her down to 100 FSB from 133