I built a new computer. I am trying to install 2000 using the disk I used on the old machine. During installation (a bunch of times) I get stopped at various points by error messages saying this or that file is corrupt!!! How? Its on a CD! Anyway....the last time it said finished loading and starting Windows 2000....then I get an error message Address 804DBFCB, 80400000 Date Stamp 3cd77809 ntoskrnl.exe. Whats going on? I'm using a new board, new drives, new everything...........this is as clean as it gets, yet I'm getting error messages saying files are corrupt as they are loading from the CD? Spike

Spike, I ain't saying this to be mean, or rude, but believe it or not, CD's DO get corrupted more often than we'd like to admit. Just because you're using a CD to install doesn't guarantee anything. If you are saying that it keeps telling you that this file, and that file is corrupted, it's a good bet that they are. There *may* be an alternative here though. No guarantees here either, but try this. Use a Win9x boot disk with CD support and boot to DOS. Navigate to the i386 folder on your CD, and copy the entire folder (i386) to your HDD. Remove the CD and open the i386 folder and run the WINNT command to install from that folder that now resides on your HDD. Don't know if it'll work, but it couldn't hurt to try. Good luck.

I have had luck using a second cd drive. Sometimes they just read differently.

Last time I got a similar problem because the cpu fan did not connect with the cpu properly. The cpu overheated and thus system unstable. Did you somehow loosen it up during, I don't know, may be on the way home?

i actually got the same problem, i already had win2k installed - without any problem - then i decided to reinstall it and now those "corruptions" occure. i have no idea how to solve this problem, i changed the hdd's, i tried another cd-drive - doesn't help a bit. if anyone can help me, please send me an email peter

This could be the classic 'M$ mis-direct' - as a chap on virtualdr.com NT forum described it some time back... You get error messages implying errors with the CD or the CDROM etc...; and it's actually a RAM issue. The problem, may well be RAM quality/spec. '95 was fussy aboutRAM; '98 more so; NT getting very picky; W2K positively demanding... Error messages of the type you are getting can indicate failing RAM, less than perfect RAM (at least as far as NT and W2K are concerned...). Even if you managed to get W2K in previously it may have been more luck than...; and then again the chips may be failing...? If you have two or more sticks, try each in turn (min RAM = 64Meg, preferably = 128Meg+). Likewise try known good/higher quality RAM? Ensure all installed RAM is same spec/quality. The copying of the i386 to the drive and running setup from there 'may' work. This situation it doesn't always allow the workaround; but it won't hurt to try? Overheating 'may' be the cause - but I can't recall seeing it as the cause for these error messages.

I had experienced similar error message. It turned out to be a defective memory module.