Another The Data is Invalid Thread

[Tim Keys]

I've been running the same computer setup with the same Windows XP
Professional SP2 disk for years now and I've never had a problem until
recently. I installed a 320g internal SATA hard drive, reinstalled windows on
the new drive and I'm getting "The data is Invalid" error while trying to
install the drivers for my sound card. a97 Realtek onboard. Well I figured it
was getting old and faulty, so I went and bought a new PCI sound card. Same
error. I've tried installing numerous different Driver.cab's including the
one from my XP cd, The permissions were already set as to the way its been
posted everywhere, and I'm officially out of ideas, but I know for a fact
that neither of the sound cards are faulty because they both work on Linux.

Any solution you can provide would be great, because I've already tried
pretty much all the ones I've seen.
Thanks.

 

[philo]

I've been running the same computer setup with the same Windows XP
Professional SP2 disk for years now and I've never had a problem until
recently. I installed a 320g internal SATA hard drive, reinstalled windows on
the new drive and I'm getting "The data is Invalid" error while trying to
install the drivers for my sound card. a97 Realtek onboard. Well I figured it
was getting old and faulty, so I went and bought a new PCI sound card. Same
error. I've tried installing numerous different Driver.cab's including the
one from my XP cd, The permissions were already set as to the way its been
posted everywhere, and I'm officially out of ideas, but I know for a fact
that neither of the sound cards are faulty because they both work on Linux.

Any solution you can provide would be great, because I've already tried
pretty much all the ones I've seen.
Thanks.

If you have not already done so,
disable the on-board sound card in the bios

 

[Tim Keys]

Yeah I've tried that as well, I put in an PCI lan card and it let me install
the drivers for that fine, it just seems to only be sound cards I can't make
install.