Counter Strike Help

Ok, my boss is having trouble installing c/s.

His system is
K7S5A,
900M Duron,
256M RAM,
Geforce 2 MX-400,
60G Fujitsu, HD

Win 2K SP 2

When trying to install, he gets an io error, he's tried 3 different CD drives. It installs ok on my machine and several others (just about every os except 2k)

Does CS work on 2k?? (I believe it should)
Would loading BIOS into RAM cause errors?

These are about the only problems left untried.


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Look at the size of that thing!

Half Life (and all its mods) works flawlessly on every Windows OS after 95. It sounds like a problem with the CD itself. Are there any scratches that would prevent it from reading correctly? Look carefully because I've had almost invisible scractches render disks useless. To compound the problem, I believe Win2K is more sensitive to data integrity and is therefore more likely to give you a CRC error on transferred data. That's what the problem sounds like to me. Hope this helps.

Also, what exactly did you mean when you said "Would loading BIOS into RAM cause errors"?

Hard work often pays off in time, but laziness always pays off now.

All RAM shadowing should be disabled... especially the video card's ROM. I'm not sure how it is under WinXP, but I know some cards caused stability issues with this feature enabled under Win98/ME. You'll never notice the speed difference shadowing makes on anything faster than a PII... even on PIIs it didn't make a huge difference, but it sure helped with stability.

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