k, this is hugely techinical (or at least to me it is). if anyone out there with WinXP could go into their setup (by pressing Del when prompted during start up) and tell me what it says for their 1st 2 categories (I think one of them is called BIOS and the other CHOM or something, but they're definitely the 1st two categories in the setup). way back in september my computer had a mystery crash and I had to do a system restore, and I don't think I did it properly cause there are still some things I don't have access to or can't play. and now I can't play Icewind Dale II, which is driving me insane cause that was the only thing I could play when I didn't have access to my boyfriend's brother's computer for War Craft. I played yesterday, but have since tried to fix my WinXP setup and now I get this message: "An assertion failed in ObjAnimation.cpp at line number 20708".

So...anyone who knows computer programming and stuff, I really need some help PLEASE!!!! :D

k, checked again and it's the BIOS category, and what I'm looking for are the boot devices, right now I have:
Primary Boot Device: CD-ROM
Secondary Boot Device: Floppy
THird Boot Device: CD-ROM
I'm pretty sure one of those needs to be for the DVD-ROM, but it doesn't give me that option, and when I tried switching it to the optimum or default settings it gave me HDD (which I have no idea what that is). I THINK this is where my problem is, but if anyone else out there knows this stuff please help!

Hmm, in order to boot your pc without a cd in the drive you must boot from the first hdd in series. Usually HDD-0.

BTW, a cd-rom drive to a pc is any optical drive.

Unless your running Knoppix Linux from cd, you shouldset your Primary boot to HDD-0. Thats a zero, not an 'O'

It's just a bug caused by a damaged file.

Try re-installing Icewind Dale.

With regards to your BIOS setup (which is a totally separate issue) primary boot device should be set to floppy, secondary to IDE-0 and third to CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive.

k, I'll try your suggestions, thanx people!

it doesn't give me the option of IDE-0, so I have:
Primary: Floppy
Secondary: HDD-0
Third: CD-ROM

any more suggestions?

That looks like a good boot sequence, although I might put the CD-ROM before HDD-0. Then I can boot from CD if needed.

Have you tried reinstalling IWD, as Dace suggested?

lol, that is the correct boot sequence order. You do not need to change anything.

With regards to the error you have with IWD2, just reinstall it [img]smile.gif[/img]

it won't let me reinstall, I tried going through it the way I always do and I get this message:
"Error loading C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\INSTAL~1\engine\6\INTEL3~1\Ct or.dll<UNINSTALL_CMD> The specified module could not be found."

anyone have any idea what this is?

<span style="color: lightblue">1. Knoppix isn't the only distro using a Live CD. There's also Ubuntu, Mandrake, Suse, DamnSmallLinux, and probably plenty more I don't know.

2. Why would boot from CD be restricted to a live CD Linux distro? There are plenty of other reasons to want to boot from the CDROM, including installing almost *any* OS (every linux distro I know of, Windows since Win95, and MacOS all to my knowledge use bootable CDs to install from).

3. Why should the harddrive boot *first*, in any case?

The solution is as follows:

Run "regedit.exe" and locate the key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Uninstall\{74FF0F2E-6C79-11D4-B1B2-0001020AA930}

Delete the key then try re-installing IWD2.

it doesn't give me that option, I can get all the way through to the uninstall folder, but don't have the {74FF0F2E-6C79-11D4-B1B2-0001020AA930} option.

Don't just look at the values within the right-hand pane. Expand the directory view and it will list a number of registry entries.

Click on the right one and delete it.

I looked there and that isn't one of my options.

Can't you find any key with Icewind Dale in it there? I think an easier way might be using another registry editor. I had a good one which listed the uninstall things with names instead of keys. However I can't for my life remember what it was called. Maybe going into the configuration screen, select software there and find the uninstall command there?

And always remember: It's not your computer that's stupid, it's windows ;) :D

<span style="color: lightblue">1. Knoppix isn't the only distro using a Live CD. There's also Ubuntu, Mandrake, Suse, DamnSmallLinux, and probably plenty more I don't know.

2. Why would boot from CD be restricted to a live CD Linux distro? There are plenty of other reasons to want to boot from the CDROM, including installing almost *any* OS (every linux distro I know of, Windows since Win95, and MacOS all to my knowledge use bootable CDs to install from).

3. Why should the harddrive boot *first*, in any case? </font>[/QUOTE]1. Correct, but Knoppix is the most advertised/popular/ and easiest for a trainee from the M$ drones to attempt.

2. Correct again, but UNLESS you are booting from an OS CD, you are only wasting time.

3. Speed my friend. If you set *first* boot to HDD-0(AKA C: drive, or OS drive, or multi boot sequence directory), and disable all others, you drop your boot time by upto 30 seconds depending upon the slowness of your machine.

I however don't use multi boot, I just swap drives to whichever OS I'm in the mood to load.