I'm building a new PC for someone and am having a problem... I'm trying to install XP, off a CD that I know is good. I tried using the Pioneer DVD-ROM that will be in the new PC, along with an ATA-66 cable that I had lying around. It started fine then failed during the initial copying of files (after the partition setup.) I tried again, it failed on a different file. Tried retrying, it would continue for a while, then die on another. Repeat ad nauseum. I swapped the IDE cable for an older ATA33 cable, exact same problem. I swapped the DVD for the one from my PC, a Toshiba model. Exactly the same problem. I had turned on "UltraDMA for CD-ROMs" in the BIOS, I turned that off, same problem. The rest of the BIOS is more or less standard "optimized defaults" and "turbo" mode. Is there something I'm missing?
The only possible thing I can see is that beforehand, the CPU cooler that came with it wasn't working well until I totally scraped off the stock thermal goo and put on some silver grease stuff, before that it had run as high as 90c for a few seconds, now it's running ~50c. It's an Athlon XP2000+, Kingston DDR333 memory... but supposedly the 2000+ can handle that temp so I can't believe that it's a damaged CPU that's making it occasionally misread from a CD?
Two different IDE cables, two different DVD drives, random misreads, known good CD... gotta be a motherboard issue, right?
(Oh yeah, I flashed to the latest BIOS version before doing anything else.)
The only possible thing I can see is that beforehand, the CPU cooler that came with it wasn't working well until I totally scraped off the stock thermal goo and put on some silver grease stuff, before that it had run as high as 90c for a few seconds, now it's running ~50c. It's an Athlon XP2000+, Kingston DDR333 memory... but supposedly the 2000+ can handle that temp so I can't believe that it's a damaged CPU that's making it occasionally misread from a CD?
Two different IDE cables, two different DVD drives, random misreads, known good CD... gotta be a motherboard issue, right?
(Oh yeah, I flashed to the latest BIOS version before doing anything else.)
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