GA-7N400 Pro2 Errors- Installation corruption

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it is the memory---this mboard wants only the best memory. Try kingston or
crucial. Even kingston needs the latest bios. Welcome to nVidia land!






"orbitron" <~!@!.com> wrote in message
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> No matter what program or game I'm installing, I get this error
> message saying I need a ".CAB file to continue or it's corrupt, or the
> CD-rom, network, etc. is not working." I've updated to the latest
> nforce2 drivers, but I'm still encountering problems installing stuff.
> I'm running an AMD Barton 2500+; 512MBx2 PDP Systems 400MhzDDR RAM;
> Radeon9800Pro; a Seagate SATA 160GB config'd as BASE on Windows XP
> SP1. I've set the jumpers and bios to auto so it clocks the CPU as a
> 3200+ runing at 2.1GHz. Is this the problem? Power supply is adequate
> (AntecTrue Power 430) and the DVD drives are fine. What is going on
> here? I moved away from VIA (old KT133A) thinking the Nvidia chipset
> was a lot more stable, but I'm having worse problems. HELP!