.cab file nightmare

[Lickable 10]

I am not running Norton, i am running the file protection scan that steev suggested.

 

Sccsux, i might have to check the cables if all else fails. Bloody PCs...

[Lickable 10]

Nope & Nope and I did a clean install this morning.

 

Sometimes I wish i was on the second floor...

[dosxuk 10]

.cab files also seem to be quite sensitive to dodgy memory. Had similar problems many times with older computers which were fixed by swapping the memory sticks out for some spares.

[Lickable 10]

I have now tried, swapping the memory and combining the memory, but still no joy!

[mr.blaze 10]

Can you extract the content from the .cab file?

[esme 10]

dirt on the lens in the cd drive ?

 

try a new cd drive ... or clean the old one

[42fta 10]

I had similar problems with my daughter's pc last year (just before building a new one) - turned out that there were old style IDE cables, 300W rather than 150W, attached to the writer drive.

SImple switch fixed it, well, fixed that one problem out of many........!

[Nazo 10]

Bit of a long shot but check the windows installation service san't been disabled somehow. You could try manually starting it too and see if that helps.

 

Are you running SP2? A new version of the installer was in that, try running windows update and check there are no patches etc you don't have.