Author: Odd Gunnar Malin
Date: 01:37:08 10/10/02
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On October 10, 2002 at 01:39:23, John Merlino wrote: >On October 09, 2002 at 20:27:43, Daniel Chancey wrote: > >>My computer has 256.0 MB of RAM and is currently 54% free. >> >>I load the CD, message shows up, gotta restart the computer. >> >>is there a windows 98 patch that I should install? anything to get rid of? > >Kurt Utzinger might be on the right track. I can think of two issues: > >1) Turn off any anti-virus software that you might have running. >2) How old is your CD-ROM drive? Anything slower than an 8x (or, possibly even >first-generation 8x drives) might not be able to handle the copy protection >scheme on the CD and are failing. Check to see if there are any newer drivers >for your CD drive. > >jm This fuilty/incompatible CD-drive could be an issue. I tried to install from a DVD player and got only this flash screen as someone elses mention. I had two CD-drives to this PC so I switched to the other and the installation went ok. I took it as the DVD player was fuilty, but later it have not had any problem with playing normal DVD videos. Odd Gunnar
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