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Shovelhead - 31 Mar 2008 13:40 GMT
I seem to be having a very weird problem with my Dell Dimension 4700.
Yesterday i tried to install the game lord of the rings battle for middle
earth 2 and i almost got through the installation, when at the last second it
asked me to put the disc back in. I did and it didnt read it. It acted like i
had no disc in the drive. I kept trying but it kept saying that. So i then
tried puting other games in such as age of empires and battle for middle
earth 1 and it wouldnt read those disks either. I've looked at the
troubleshooters and i cant find any answers. Then the weirdest part of all
when i put the game oblivion in the drive it shows up after a minutes in my
computer. I don't understand what the problem is. When i first open oblivion
it says that the disk isnt in also and then i click retry and it opens the
game.

   I have also had a weird black screen show up when i frist start my
computer. It says something about an error in a diskette drive and i have to
press f1 to continue on or f2 to go into bios. ITs happened ever since i
installed my nvidia geforve 8400 graphics card. I don't know whats wrong with
it and i would appreciate any help i can get. thanks
Mark L. Ferguson - 31 Mar 2008 15:23 GMT
Something in your Permissions is probably broken.
Aaron Stebner's WebLog Solving setup errors by using the SubInACL tool to
repair file and registry permissions:
http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2006/09/04/739820.aspx
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> I seem to be having a very weird problem with my Dell Dimension 4700.
> Yesterday i tried to install the game lord of the rings battle for middle
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> with
> it and i would appreciate any help i can get. thanks
smlunatick - 31 Mar 2008 15:28 GMT
On Mar 31, 7:40 am, Shovelhead <Shovelh...@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:
> I seem to be having a very weird problem with my Dell Dimension 4700.
> Yesterday i tried to install the game lord of the rings battle for middle
[quoted text clipped - 14 lines]
> installed my nvidia geforve 8400 graphics card. I don't know whats wrong with
> it and i would appreciate any help i can get. thanks

Your problem is looking like yor PC BIOS / CMOS is screwed up and is
expecting to boot from a floppy.

Things to check:

1) BIOS / CMOS settings for Boot up devices:  Hard drive / CD-ROM
drive boot should be set for booting "before" floppy drive

2) Check and change the coin-cell battery.

3) Check the PC for viruses and clean off all / any found.

4) Backup hard drive.  This also can be a sign that the hard drive is
starting to fail.
 
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