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Originally posted by Paine: Quote: I then tried the Miles Sound Tools and that's not working either. It won't let me copy mss32.dll into the installation folder and the same message keeps popping up. What error it gives to you? Does your account have administrator rights? What folders does your CD(s) have? See if there is game data files uncompressed and try to copy them manually to installation folder. Make sure that they are not marked as read-only.

Hmm... Noticed something in the log files. In 2.0.54: Quote: MSI © (7C:F8) [17:34:29:509]: Running product '{3A862C7D-0504-48BC-AEF8-7F7479C7C158}' with user privileges: It's not assigned. And in 2.0.50: Quote: MSI © (D8:EC) [17:34:02:681]: Product installation will be elevated because user is admin and product is being installed per-machine. MSI © (D8:EC) [17:34:02:681]: Running product '{3A862C7D-0504-48BC-AEF8-7F7479C7C158}' with elevated privileges: Product is assigned. So, to me, it looks like 2.0.54 does not detect that my account have Administrator rights... <edit> Uninstalled 2.0.50. and tried to reinstall 54. No change. Same error, incl. in log file. Reinstalled 2.0.50. Installed fine. No errors. </edit>

Download "The Miles Sound Tools" from http://www.radgametools.com/mssdown.htm. Install it. Go to folder where you installed it ("C:\Program Files\Miles Sound Tools"). Select mss32.dll file and copy it to your might and magic installation folder ("C:\Program Files\Might and magic").

Try this first: Quote: 1) Ensure that the "Cryptographic Services" service is running on your computer. To do this, open Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Services. Select "Cryptographic Services" from the list of names. Right-click this service and select Properties. If the service is not shown as "Started", you can start it by clicking the Start button. You should also set the Startup type to Automatic so that it will be running when needed in future. Close the Services control panel and try installing the service pack or security patch. 2) If the "Cryptographic Services" service was already running, stop the service by clicking the Stop button, then using Windows Explorer, locate the folder C:/Windows/System32/catroot2 and rename it to something like xcatroot. Now restart "Cryptographic Services" by clicking the Start button, and try installing the directx. 3) If the directx still fails to install, stop the "Cryptographic Services" service again. Open a command prompt window (click Start, Run, type "cmd", without quotes and hit Enter) and then type the following commands: regsvr32 softpub.dll regsvr32 wintrust.dll regsvr32 initpki.dll regsvr32 dssenh.dll regsvr32 rsaenh.dll regsvr32 gpkcsp.dll regsvr32 sccbase.dll regsvr32 slbcsp.dll regsvr32 cryptdlg.dll Restart "Cryptographic Services" by clicking the Start button again. Which one you downloaded? The redist./full version? Or just the web install?

"STOP: 0x0000007B (parameter1, parameter2, parameter3, parameter4) INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE" Are your HDs SATA or PATA? If SATA, did you install the driver for it while installing? "Press F6 if you have to install a third-party SCSI or RAID driver." SCSI? Check SCSI chain for correct termination. How did you format the HD? Quick? Use complete. Loaded fail-safe settings in BIOS and the disable all addons,like sound card, nic, etc. ? Run memtest86, to check your memory.

Hi. See sig.

Hi. Have you tried these: http://www.celestialheavens.com/viewpage.php?id=383

Originally posted by egoveneror2: Quote: and upon cracking it no errors... Warez questions are not answered here, sorry.

I assume he has Windows 2000/XP? Make sure that "DNS Client" service is running. Click Start -> Run. Execute "services.msc". Locate "DNS Client" service. Doubleclick it. Set startup type to Automatic and click Start button if it was stopped.

What video card? Tried older drivers?

Might and Magic VI-IX on XP Pro Service Pack 2 @ Celestial Heavens: http://www.celestialheavens.com/viewpage.php?id=383 Try those

Originally posted by Wicked101: Quote: Its Friday, thats all I care about, light a nice braai, burn some meet and drink a couple of beers :-) Or read Stephen King's "Dark Tower" first four series. Just finished reading "The Gunslinger". Now starting "The Drawing of the Three"...

Hmm... I am blind. --- And try to shutdown some 'unneeded' applications, like winamp, messenger, etc.

Does it give you error message(s)? "Cabinet cannot be trusted" or something like that? Open System in Control Panel. On the Hardware tab, click Driver Signing. Under File signature verification, click: "Ignore" or "Ask".

Can you give your computer specs? Incl. all devices you got installed/attached to your computer. On some other forums the problem was "secondary devices". One guy disabled his TV card and it solved it. And on another forum, this was fixed by adding new,better cooling fan... And make your swap file larger.

Hi. At first, do this: 1. Open System in Control Panel. 2. On the Hardware tab, click Driver Signing. 3. Under File signature verification, click: "Ignore" to allow all device drivers to be installed on this computer, regardless of whether they have a digital signature. If this does not fix it, then: You cannot install some updates or programs http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B822798&x=19&y=9 And for SP2, you can download it from microsoft's website (full package, about 272391 KB) or order cd: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/sp2/cdorder/en_us/default.mspx Download link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/detai...;DisplayLang=en

Well, you can join and create account to some free/ad paid message board... for example ProBoards.com.

Found these pages for 7th guest: http://www.geocities.com/ataniel/guestreview.htm, http://www.home.earthlink.net/~infernofilecabinet1/XpSetUpWalkthroughsA_E/7thGuest_Setup.htm. Try the last one.

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I downloaded the Knoppix for testing purposes. Now I have used this for couple hours and I must admit that this is rather neat 'little' Linux. It detected all required (video card, sound card, nic, etc.) hardware and creating PPPOE/ADSL connection was easy IMHO, better than in Windows, I did not need install anything drivers from ISP CD, I just needed input username and password. Perhaps after purchasing new HDD, I'll try to install this to it... My score: 5/5. This message was sent from Knoppix Live Linux on CD, version 3.8.1.

As it says: "Not a null modem cable attached!" Quote: "A specially designed cable that allows a user to connect two computers directly to each other via their communications ports (RS-232 ports)." You can create this cable. Like:http://www.lammertbies.nl/comm/info/RS-232_null_modem.html Or Google for "create null modem cable".

1) Configure your computer to boot from the CD drive. This is done in the BIOS, or your computer may offer the option at startup if it detects a bootable CD. Consult your computer's manual for more information. If your computer does not support booting from CD-Rom, you should also be able to boot with a 98/Me Startup disk, and run WINNT.EXE from the I386 folder of your XP CD. 2) Insert your XP CD and boot from it. 3) You'll see some files being copied, then you'll be presented with a choice of installing or repairing an existing installation. Choose Repair. 4) You'll be asked which XP installation you want to log into. Enter to your XP installation. 5) You'll be prompted for the Administrator password. For Home, the default password is blank, so just hit Enter (This is not the same as the password for an Admin level account. It must be the Administrator account password). 6) At the drive:/Windows prompt, type BOOTCFG /REBUILD. This will recreate the boot.ini file. * Prompt for the identified versions of Windows installed. When you receive this prompt press Y if the bootcfg command properly identified each of the Windows operating systems installed on the computer. * Prompt to enter the load identifier: This is the name of the operating system for the boot.ini. For example "Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition". * Prompt to Enter OS load options: When this prompt is received, type /fastdetect to automatically detect the available options. 7) Type: (replace the E: to your CD/DVD drive where the XP CD is) copy E:\i386\ntldr C:\ and: copy E:\i386\ntdetect.com C:\ 8) Type FIXBOOT (Writes a new partition boot sector to the system partition). 9) Type FIXMBR (Repairs the master boot record of the boot disk). 10) When finished, remove the XP CD and type EXIT and the machine will reboot. Reconfigure your computer to boot from the hard drive in BIOS, if necessary. You will now get the XP Boot loader.

See my sig. about 16bit subsystem.

Quote: 1) Ensure that the "Cryptographic Services" service is running on your computer. To do this, open Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Services. Select "Cryptographic Services" from the list of names. Right-click this service and select Properties. If the service is not shown as "Started", you can start it by clicking the Start button. You should also set the Startup type to Automatic so that it will be running when needed in future. Close the Services control panel and try installing the service pack or security patch. 2) If the "Cryptographic Services" service was already running, stop the service by clicking the Stop button, then using Windows Explorer, locate the folder C:/Windows/System32/catroot2 and rename it to something like xcatroot. Now restart "Cryptographic Services" by clicking the Start button, and try installing the directx. 3) If the directx still fails to install, stop the "Cryptographic Services" service again. Open a command prompt window (click Start, Run, type "cmd", without quotes and hit Enter) and then type the following commands: regsvr32 softpub.dll regsvr32 wintrust.dll regsvr32 initpki.dll regsvr32 dssenh.dll regsvr32 rsaenh.dll regsvr32 gpkcsp.dll regsvr32 sccbase.dll regsvr32 slbcsp.dll regsvr32 cryptdlg.dll Restart "Cryptographic Services" by clicking the Start button again.

Free does not always mean legit. No abandonware on this forum. Thanks.