Weird Ass Problem with my Comp

[Relic]

Anyone know why my HD slows down to a crawl when accessing the cd? This is preventing me from installing win XP, cause I keep getting errors which say "The file setup placed on your hard drive is not a valid Windows Xp System Image". Really retarted. Im pretty sure it might be a hardware problem.

[Cyborg]

Illegal version of xp is probably the problem

[AgentCash]

Are your HD & CD on different controllers?
You always want to try and avoid putting them on the same cable.

[Relic]

Nah it's not illegal, it's the actual cd.
And Agent, I have tried them on diff controllers as well as on the same with no change in in problem.

[stanton]

Originally posted by AgentCash
Are your HD & CD on different controllers?
You always want to try and avoid putting them on the same cable.

TRUE TRUE!

i have then on different cables, otherwise they wont work

[Relic]

They are
What should I put on the primary channel HD, or CDRW

[Relic]

As it currently is, I can even copy files from a cd without the system locking up. It seems almost as if It can only process information from the CPU or cd rom at one time.

[aw-tolik]

check jumper setting first

then check IDE modes in bios

have same problems with XP some time ago


now back to win95

[Relic]

Not sure I understand what you mean

[AgentCash]

I think he means make sure the jumpers on both the HD & CDRW
aren't both set to master, & to check your bios & make sure it's
detecting them properly.

[Relic]

I managed to get it past the dos loader for the install XP, however once it got into the actuall GUI for the install, it started saying it couldn't access d:/I306
and basically I am installing it without 50 files. Windows should be a little buggy :)