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Old 02-22-2005, 09:54 PM   #1
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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!!!!
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Old 02-22-2005, 10:08 PM   #2
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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!
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Old 02-22-2005, 10:17 PM   #3
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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'
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Old 02-22-2005, 10:22 PM   #4
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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.
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Old 02-22-2005, 10:38 PM   #5
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k, I'll try your suggestions, thanx people!
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Old 02-22-2005, 10:50 PM   #6
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it doesn't give me the option of IDE-0, so I have:
Primary: Floppy
Secondary: HDD-0
Third: CD-ROM

any more suggestions?
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Old 02-22-2005, 11:28 PM   #7
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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?
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Old 02-22-2005, 11:29 PM   #8
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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]
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Old 02-22-2005, 11:35 PM   #9
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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 The specified module could not be found."

anyone have any idea what this is?
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Old 02-22-2005, 11:56 PM   #10
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Originally posted by Felix The Assassin:
Unless your running Knoppix Linux from cd, you shouldset your Primary boot to HDD-0. Thats a zero, not an 'O'
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?
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