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[t6_shadow]

I don't know exactly where this goes since there is no general trouble shooting section but here goes.

I have just purchased most of my new rig (specs in sig) but there is a problem. I have been reinstalling many of my games like soldier of fortune ut2003 etc. Now when I try to install these things I get an error about something to do with I/O. It lets me retry and usually thing install but i have to sit there and hit retry for every new file. Now I was wondering if my older harddrive could be some how buggering my system into install things incorrectly? I have no idea.

[ALobpreis]

Isn't this for General Hardware?
What error do you get exactly?

Usually, when there's a problem reading/writing a hard disk, you get a BSOD saying that info couldn't be written onto the disk and that may have been lost.
Maybe it has something to do with the CD drive.

[-=DVS=-]

If you haveing such problems just reinstall windows , and then after don't forget to install Mobo drivers like ide... and others , would help more if you could tells us what hardware ,chipset, windows xp, ect ect ? you have

edit: also maybe you overcloaking that could couse your problems , make sure all the cables are connected correctly , also one of possibilitys ram is bad take one stick out and then try to install something unless you habe RDram you have to use pair of stick in oder for your mobo to work

[Serath]

was the optical drive upgraded?
Ya know sometimes ya get a CD/DVD drive that just doesn't read so well... I usually get I/O errors when my drives can't read from a CD for certain reasons.

[t6_shadow]

sorry guys. I am running windows 98 first edition. I have one stick of 512 ram so I can't change that. Secondly the mobo cd won't autorun. Therefore I can't install the drivers. The only marking it has PCS elite group. Is that an intel chipset, via. sis, msi? I have no idea. Any help on that would be greatly apprecatied.

[Cereal-Killer]

Do you have DMA for your CD drive and for your HDD enabled? I don't really know much about DMA settings, but you might want to look into that.

Linkage (http://tweakcentral.com/dma.htm)

[t6_shadow]

Ok guys nevermind. I determined the problem to be the faulty motherboard. After a quick trip to the computer strone I have a new one and everything is working fine. Except for this terrible scroll problem in IE. I am running xp pro now.

Oh and in win9x there is an program called system config util. This allow you among other things to disable programs that would start up and sit in your system tray. This proggie seems to have been removed from XP. Anyone know how to disable these task bar annoances in XP?

And my inital opinion of Xp was correct. It sucks ****. I Think I am going back to 98se.

[The Baron]

msconfig

it's STILL THERE.

heh.

XP Pro is WAY better than 98SE if you have a rig good enough to run it...

[thcdru2k]

i went from 98se, to me, to xp on a tbird 1.2 system. every upgrade, with proper tweaking yielded increased performance and stability. i suggest you download tweak-xp pro. it makes a huge difference.

[[Corporal Dan]]

Edit: NM

didn't see above post