PROBLEM LOADING PROGRAMMES FROM CD'S FOLLOWING RE-INSTALLATION OF

[Guest]

DUE TO MAJOR REGISTRY PROBLEM I HAVE HAD TO RE-INSTALL XP HOME EDITION. THIS
APPEARS TO HAVE GONE OK, HOWEVER, I NOW FIND THAT A NUMBER OF THE PROGRAMMES
I HAD ON MY COMPUTER WILL NOT RE-LOAD. THIS INCLUDES WORKS SUITE 2005 AND
NORTON SECURITY. HAS ANYONE COME ACROSS THIS PROBLEM, THESE ARE ALL GENUINE
COPIES OF THE PROGRAMMES.

 

[DL]

You also seem to have problems with your caps lock, which makes your post
hard to read and is considered shouting.
Depends what *exactly* you mean by reinstall xp, or maybe *how*, and what is
meant by 'will not load'

 

[Guest]

Re your reply apologies about caps lock but this is my first time so am
learning as i go. I wiped hard drive and installed xp home from scratch.
Having all other programmes on disk i started to re-install them onto the
computer, however, some of them would start installing then stop and the
works suite 2005 came up with Initialization of setup failed. Other
programmes installed ok. Not being an expect this is all very confusing to me.

 

[Malke]

Re your reply apologies about caps lock but this is my first time so
am learning as i go. I wiped hard drive and installed xp home from
scratch. Having all other programmes on disk i started to re-install
them onto the computer, however, some of them would start installing
then stop and the works suite 2005 came up with Initialization of
setup failed. Other programmes installed ok. Not being an expect this
is all very confusing to me.

After you did the clean install of Windows, did you also install drivers
for all your hardware? If not, you need to do so. Never get drivers
from Windows Update. Get them from:

1. The device mftr.'s website; OR
2. The motherboard mftr.'s website if hardware is onboard; OR
3. The OEM's website for your specific machine if you have an OEM
computer (HP, Dell, Sony, etc.).

Read the installation instructions on the website where you get the
drivers.

To find out what hardware is in your computer:

1. Read any documentation you got when you bought the computer.
2. If the computer is OEM, go to the OEM's website for your specific
model machine and look at the specs (you'll be there to get the drivers
anyway)
3. Download, install and run a free system inventory program like Belarc
Advisor. The older Aida32 is good for this, too.

http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html - Belarc Advisor
http://www.aumha.org/free.htm - Aida32 (hosted on Jim Eshelman's site)

In your first post you said you reinstalled because of a "major registry
problem". What were the symptoms? How do you know you had a "major
registry problem"? It is also possible that your computer has hardware
failure. There is no way to tell from the information you've provided
so far.

Here are some general hardware troubleshooting steps:
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Hardware_Tshoot

Testing hardware failures often involves swapping out suspected parts
with known-good parts. If you can't do the testing yourself and/or are
uncomfortable opening your computer or simply find all of this computer
troubleshooting daunting, take the machine to a professional computer
repair shop (not your local equivalent of BigStoreUSA).

Malke

 

[Guest]

Thank you Malke i will give it a try over the weekend, will take time as OEM
manufacturer wasTiny which went into liquidation so will have to try other
sources suggested. Will be in touch.

 

[DL]

Try http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html for info on your hw installed
PS Didnt Time take over Tiny?

 

[Guest]

Thanks for advice have run Belarc programme and obtained info, yes Time did
take over Tiny then they went bust. Have found a disk sent with computer
titled system and driver cd which is fine up to a point. It will autorun and
list whats on it but so far i have been unable to install anything from it.

 

[DL]

If Beleric reveals the motherboard manu. & model visit the manu site for the
downloads.
If however the mobo is a Tiny proprietary mobo you're up the proverbial
creek.

The system disk sounds like a reinstall disk, which would I suspect have
Tiny's copy of win* on it together with drivers. If purchance the origonal
installed o/s is different to the one you are now installing, then the
drivers contained would have been for that o/s.

 

[Guest]

Yes was able to get mobo info from Belarc and have downloaded driver from
manufacturer site many thanks for help. Now all need to do is get sound out
of the computer system info says driver is loaded and everything is enabled
but still no sound . I think i am missing something that is probably staring
me in the face.