installation problems

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These problems are independent of operating system.

premature installation

symptom 1 - installation quits at 95% complete
A recursive call error is caused when installing (the installation quitting at anything between 95%-99%) and prompts to abort, retry or ignore.
symptom 2 - "Disk 0 looking for Cab 3"
All files ARE present on the CD (even Outro.4xm). However this manifests as a CRC error indicating a failure with one of the data.cab files (data3.cab) and upon finishing the install gives an "...this programmed performed illegal operation..." error.

solutions

use a slower drive
DVD ROM drives or higher speed CD-ROM drives seem to miss a file (maybe due to poor copy protection?) Results have been achieved by switching to a slower CD ROM drive (24x or less), rather than a faster and/or DVD drive.
Similar results can be achieved by installing from a network, using another machine with slower CD ROM.
alter you 'DMA' and/or 'Sync Data Transfer' settings

It may be an issue with your CD/CDR/DVD drive.
Basically there are two settings which could be causing the problems - these are 'Sync Data Transfer' and 'DMA'. Both of these are configurable from within the Device Manager for the CD drive. It's likely it's an incompatibility with those settings.

There's nothing to state that these settings are wrong - they just cause issues with the Installer. To get a successful installation, try the various combinations of these two settings until you get something that works. Remember what they are and restore them if nothing works. Each machine may well be different.

cd not recognised

If your drive doesn't even recognise the CD as valid, not even loading the volume label, then it's a hardware rather than software issue.
Follow the advice about altering your settings via Device Manager, above.

hardware manufacturer contact details

more technical information available at www.artofmagic.co.uk

technical forum available at aom.bethsoft.com


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