what do you do when you dont know how to fix your computer?

[GalvanizedYankee]

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[Topplayer]

dl wow from bliz

 

[nutxo]

Originally posted by: Topplayer
dl wow from bliz

QFT. The trial version you DL is the same as retail. DL and install from the HDD.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Check your BIOS settings and make sure you have the correct SATA settings. IIRC, having SATA II settings enabled for SATA I drives causes issues.

 

[supaidaaman]

Originally posted by: AnonymouseUser
Check your BIOS settings and make sure you have the correct SATA settings. IIRC, having SATA II settings enabled for SATA I drives causes issues.

hmm this sounds like i should look into it, what would those settings be called? The mobo has 8 built in sata II ports: 4 NVraid, 4Silicon, they are both default sata II, but when i have a sata II raid set up, ill have to mix them with the raptor in order to be on one raid....(if what you say is the case, ill have to enable sata I and II at the same time to use the particular raid 0 i need)

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Originally posted by: supaidaaman

Originally posted by: AnonymouseUser
Check your BIOS settings and make sure you have the correct SATA settings. IIRC, having SATA II settings enabled for SATA I drives causes issues.

hmm this sounds like i should look into it, what would those settings be called? The mobo has 8 built in sata II ports: 4 NVraid, 4Silicon, they are both default sata II, but when i have a sata II raid set up, ill have to mix them with the raptor in order to be on one raid....(if what you say is the case, ill have to enable sata I and II at the same time to use the particular raid 0 i need)

Actually, just did some quick research, and it isn't a BIOS option but a jumper on the HDD which forces SATA 150. Worth a shot at this point.

 

[MeStinkBAD]

I suggest downloading VirtualPC (or some other VM) and install the game into a VM enviroment. Because the VM is running on top of a software emulation layer, this will at least let you know if the problem is software or hardware.

From what it looks like, definetly software. And this problem isn't even worth trying to fix. Hardware issues cause more wide spread problems. If you can install it in a VM, just copy the folder to your main drive. You'll be able to run it just fine.

 

[AMCRambler]

Originally posted by: AnonymouseUser

Originally posted by: supaidaaman

Originally posted by: AnonymouseUser
Check your BIOS settings and make sure you have the correct SATA settings. IIRC, having SATA II settings enabled for SATA I drives causes issues.

hmm this sounds like i should look into it, what would those settings be called? The mobo has 8 built in sata II ports: 4 NVraid, 4Silicon, they are both default sata II, but when i have a sata II raid set up, ill have to mix them with the raptor in order to be on one raid....(if what you say is the case, ill have to enable sata I and II at the same time to use the particular raid 0 i need)

Actually, just did some quick research, and it isn't a BIOS option but a jumper on the HDD which forces SATA 150. Worth a shot at this point.

That's what I was thinking. Possible jumper issue on the hard disk. I'm not too familiar with SATA disk jumpers as I just took mine out of the box, plugged it in and it worked fine. I did notice there were jumpers and I remember wondering why it needed them if there wasn't any master or slave. I just figured they were for limiting the disk size for computers that would not recognize large disks.

 

[Aikouka]

I'm a bit curious, load the 2nd disc via software (i.e. mount an image) and physically try the third disc. I'm wondering if you'll see the same result for the 3rd disc since the first disc works for some reason.

If you're curious about your PSU, check your voltages while accessing the raptor drive (it shouldn't have to be while installing either, but during something fairly intensive).

Is your mobo flashed to the newest BIOS?

Seems your problems a bit worse than most CD2 problems that I've encountered, as I know I've ripped my WoW CD2 in the past for people, because theirs magically stopped working all of a sudden.

 

[Zap]

Something else... chipset drivers? Have Nvidia IDE drivers installed?

Originally posted by: Aikouka
I've heard about the 2nd WoW CD messing up for quite a number of people, it's your CD, not your computer. Just copy the contents of your all 4 (or 5) CDs to the hard drive in reverse order (this ensures you don't have to go back to CD 1 and copy the install.exe off of it). You can burn a DVD with this if you'd like an optical copy.

That's good to know. I had the issue on one computer, basically just shared an optical drive over network, mapped it and installed that way. I should make the DVD (or just DL the "trial").

 

[rasczak]

have you tried another DVD/CD rom drive?

 

[crimson117]

FYI you can copy the entire WoW program folder from one computer to another, with no need to run install.exe. The install routine does nothing other than copy the files over - no registry keys created, no special drivers, etc.

I copied the folder from my AMD desktop to an external drive, then onto a Dell laptop, and it ran just fine.

 

[supaidaaman]

Originally posted by: Aikouka
I'm a bit curious, load the 2nd disc via software (i.e. mount an image) and physically try the third disc. I'm wondering if you'll see the same result for the 3rd disc since the first disc works for some reason.

If you're curious about your PSU, check your voltages while accessing the raptor drive (it shouldn't have to be while installing either, but during something fairly intensive).

Is your mobo flashed to the newest BIOS?

I tried installing beginning with the 2nd disk in, then it asks for the first disk, the same error happens when i switch CD's. I tested the others, and the crash happens no matter what order and it happens when swapping out ANY of the CD's.

I have the newest BIOS, and ive tried swapping out the IDE SW drivers and with or without they still dont work (FYI on my old harddrive i had the IDE SW drivers installed with no problem)

The raptor came with no jumper setting, which i think is default sata 150

here is what my speedfan shows, i dont know how to read the voltages though...
http://img58.imageshack.us/my.php?image=speedfanoj6.jpg

 

[Aikouka]

Is this issue also exclusive to installing WoW (i.e. only that multi-CD game)?

EDIT: Try what jp said and see what happens with another optical drive (I didn't see you mention that you tried switching that out anywhere in here).

 

[supaidaaman]

hmm i thought i mentioned that i swapped drives? If not here is what i did: I took the drive on this computer that was giving me the error and installed it on another computer and WoW installed with no problems, I then took a duplicate of the same drive (i have 2 of the same NEC burners) and installed that on the (main computer giving me the error) I was still unable to install the game because of the same error.

so its clearly not the drive or the drive model, as i can install the game fine on other computers using both of the same drive.