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Bought UT 2004, and, hey, it doesn't blooming work...
2004-03-19, 7:41 AM #1
Yeah, God loves me clearly. I bought, I took home, I tried to install, I got an I/O error. I suspected my DVD drive was broke for some time, but my PC company, before going bust, didn't really want to know, so I've got another reason to hate the **** out of them. If anyone does know any better (I'll tell you now it plays DVD movies no problem and the UT2K4 demo worked fine for me) and can help I'd be understandably greatful. Anyone who shouts 'haha,' 'lol,' 'pwned,' or something similar will piss me off and incur the wrath of God. Don't do it. It's not funny. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/frown.gif]

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2004-03-19, 8:00 AM #2
Ill trade you for bf vietnam, its 3 cd's

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2004-03-19, 8:02 AM #3
Haven't a clue what's wrong. When does it give you the error?

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2004-03-19, 12:43 PM #4
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by nottheking:
Haven't a clue what's wrong. When does it give you the error?

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Halfway through the install after the DVD drive whisks the crap out of itself very noisily.


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2004-03-19, 12:55 PM #5
Sounds like the drive is bad. Can you test the disk at a freind's house?

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2004-03-19, 1:01 PM #6
i'm gonna state the obvious

looks like you should get a new drive... they are pretty cheap

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2004-03-19, 1:03 PM #7
Or, check out a CD-RW or just CD drive, they are dirt cheap these days, and since your DVD drive works some of the time, then.. yeah

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2004-03-19, 1:06 PM #8
You didn't happen to buy that machine from Micro Express did you?

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gbk is 50 probably

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2004-03-19, 1:12 PM #9
Make an ISO, put it on your hard drive, and use Daemon Tools.

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2004-03-19, 1:26 PM #10
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by fishstickz:
Or, check out a CD-RW or just CD drive, they are dirt cheap these days, and since your DVD drive works some of the time, then.. yeah

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but a cd drive wont help if he has the DVD edition of ut2k4

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[This message has been edited by DrkJedi82 (edited March 19, 2004).]
eat right, exercise, die anyway
2004-03-19, 2:02 PM #11
Try your other disc drive

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2004-03-19, 2:16 PM #12
Kinda off topic: But the 2nd disc of UT 04...the DVD with videos of them editing...is great.

Was thinking of starting levels for JA, but UT04 I will definatly start.

The guy in the video *And they are hours and hours long showing everything* builds a demo level that looks better then almost anything that was in JA...

It's great...


Sorry about your drive...but a new drive would be worth the money. UT04 rocks!
2004-03-19, 7:48 PM #13
Yeah, that is DEFINITELY your drive. Same thing happened to me in the fall. The EXACT same thing. Halfway through or so.. it would just wind up and down forever until the computer froze or something.

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2004-03-19, 9:08 PM #14
Blimey.

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2004-03-19, 9:48 PM #15
Try turning off DMA mode for your disc drive while installing. A lot of people have been having this problem, and that seems to be the fix. You can turn DMA mode back on after the game is installed and it should run fun. Apparently it has something to do with the copy protection that the game uses.

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[This message has been edited by DSettahr (edited March 20, 2004).]
2004-03-20, 12:54 PM #16
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by DSettahr:
Try turning off DMA mode for your disc drive while installing. A lot of people have been having this problem, and that seems to be the fix. You can turn DMA mode back on after the game is installed and it should run fun. Apparently it has something to do with the copy protection that the game uses.

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The PC company did hint at that...

*goes to try it*


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2004-03-20, 12:57 PM #17
How do you turn off DMA?

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2004-03-20, 1:00 PM #18
Uhhh... I can't find an option for DMA anywhere...

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2004-03-20, 1:10 PM #19
Well I've done it, and, nope, it still won't work. Damn. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/frown.gif]

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2004-03-20, 1:13 PM #20
Make sure when you turn off DMA you reboot. Then install it.
Enable DMA. Reboot.

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2004-03-20, 1:16 PM #21
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Ubuu:
Make an ISO, put it on your hard drive, and use Daemon Tools.

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Excuse me? [http://forums.massassi.net/html/confused.gif]

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2004-03-20, 1:17 PM #22
Use Daemon tools to create an iso of the CD. Then mount the image to a virtual drive and install it from there.

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