tryin to install oppoising force; says theres a problem caused by an i/o conflict or bad media, any ideas?

[acidvoodoo]

i got an orror installing half life, so i copied it to the HD and installed succesfully from there, went to do opposing force, and it would not work


any ideas?

 

[DaiShan]

system specs and OS?

 

[acidvoodoo]

amd k6-2 450
128mb ram
voodoo 3 agp
windows 95 version 2


i was getting errors with half life also, so i copied the cd to my hard drive and ran it from there and it worked. i also downloaded the latest patch for half life but when installing i get the same error meesage as installing OF
also red alert 2 won't install

i think it may be something to do with installshield i'm not sure


i recently formatted this comp and everything installed fine before

 

[CubicZirconia]

This probably won't help any, but a friend of mine tried installing c&c on win95 and it wouldn't work with him either. There's probably a different problem, but if you have access to 98 you might want to give it a try.

 

[acidvoodoo]

thanks for the idea, but i've installed half life and updates on this OS fine before with no problems

 

[altonb1]

Direct X may be hosed in your registry. Look in c:\Program Files\DirectX and run dxdiag. Let it run it's tests and see if it comes up with errors. Direct X is tied into a lot with the O/S and it could be that your problem is related to it.

I would recommend going to 98SE if possible, but you seem resistant to that idea, so it's your choice. I have 98SE because I prefer it's interface and functionality over ME (blecchHH!!), 2k or XP. (Okay, actually, i just don't feel like buying 2k or XP when I don't want my OS based on the NT platform for backwards compatibility reasons)

I also highly recommend getting Regclean from Microsoft directly or Regedit.com Regedit.com also has other registry tweaking utilities, so it is worth taking a look. Also, make sure you run scandisk to eliminate a problem with your hard drive, then defrag just for good measure. If none of these work, I have no idea what to tell you. Good luck!

 

[acidvoodoo]

yea i'm not gonna buy a new OS because my new system i will get soon will have XP, but it'd be nice if this one would work properly for now

 

[mattyrug]

This is a longshot and it might not have anything to do w/your problem, but it's worth a try. I had a friend who had weird glitches, (just started one day out of the blue) and random locks/failed boots on his K6-2 500 in win95, this fixed it.

 

[acidvoodoo]

yea i got that, it's essential, u can't boot without it, but thanks for the idea anyway

 

[acidvoodoo]

<< Direct X may be hosed in your registry. Look in c:\Program Files\DirectX and run dxdiag. Let it run it's tests and see if it comes up with errors. Direct X is tied into a lot with the O/S and it could be that your problem is related to it.

I would recommend going to 98SE if possible, but you seem resistant to that idea, so it's your choice. I have 98SE because I prefer it's interface and functionality over ME (blecchHH!!), 2k or XP. (Okay, actually, i just don't feel like buying 2k or XP when I don't want my OS based on the NT platform for backwards compatibility reasons)

I also highly recommend getting Regclean from Microsoft directly or Regedit.com Regedit.com also has other registry tweaking utilities, so it is worth taking a look. Also, make sure you run scandisk to eliminate a problem with your hard drive, then defrag just for good measure. If none of these work, I have no idea what to tell you. Good luck! >>



yea cleaned the reigistry, didn't help a weird thing is, when the cd starts on autorun, i have the options of 'play half life' or 'reinstsall half life', now playing obviously does not work. i've tried everything i can think of to get rid of every trace of half life and sierra, so it would be like a fresh install, but it still does this. i remember the first time i tried to install it it said that uninstaller had a problem and i would have problems unistalling half life

 

[acidvoodoo]

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