"Rich Barry" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...=Google+Search
Thanks, Rich. I had already Googled it but came up with so many occurrences,
and different kinds of advice, I thought I'd try the newsgroups instead. But
finally I did check out some of those suggestions. The one that worked for
me was to remove Nero 6 from that system -- which immediately solved the
problem. (Note, I have Nero 6 on my other WinXP system and it causes no
problem whatever.)
Neil
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> "Neil Harrington" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>>I built this WinXP Home Ed. SP2 system in March 2007.
>>
>> Motherboard is a DFI Infinity nF4X, DVD drive is a Samsung Writemaster.
>> HDD
>> is SATA but the DVD drive is IDE.
>>
>> Everything has worked fine on it, the Samsung drive plays movie DVDs,
>> burns
>> and reads CDs and data DVDs with no problem -- EXCEPT I now find I cannot
>> install games on DVD with it.
>>
>> Attempting to install Command & Conquer: The First Decade (first thing I
>> ever attempted to install from DVD), to begin with the drive did not seem
>> to
>> see the autorun file (autorun always worked fine for installations from
>> CD).
>> So I explored the DVD and could see all the files all right, and could
>> open
>> text files such as readme, etc., but when I tried double-clicking the
>> Setup.exe file all I got was the error message "D:\Setup.exe is not a
>> valid
>> Win32 application." Trying other executable files produced the same
>> result.
>>
>> The DVD is known good: After failing on this machine, I installed the C&C
>> games on my other WinXP computer with no problem at all.
>>
>> Now I've tried to install Neverwinter Nights Platinum (also DVD) on this
>> DFI
>> system with just about the same result. When the disc is inserted it does
>> not autoplay, and attempting to run Setup.exe manually by double-clicking
>> on
>> it produces the same "D:\Setup.exe is not a valid Win32 application."
>> Trying
>> other executable files gives either that same error message, or "Only
>> part
>> of a ReadProcessMemory or WriteProcessMemory request was completed."
>> Nothing
>> works.
>>
>> Thinking an update to the system BIOS and/or drivers might help, I went
>> to
>> the DFI site, but for this motherboard they don't seem to have anything
>> newer than 2005 -- even though SiSoft says my present BIOS is dated March
>> 1,
>> 2006.
>>
>> Anyone have any ideas about this? I hate to think I'm stuck with a
>> relatively new system that will never install programs from DVD, since it
>> seems likely that more and more things will be published on DVD.
>>
>> Neil
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