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So I ordered all the parts for a new computer this last Sunday and got the word that they were ready to get picked up on Monday. After walking all the way to the place of pickup I learn that I read the message wrong and that the stuff was actually due Tuesday, which is today. That is, it was today about half an hour ago.
I got all the hardware today and I skipped back home to put it all together. I'm running a i7 860 on a p55m ud2 motherboard with 4gb of 1600mhz RAM, a 650w psu and a Radeon 5850 gpu.
Once I got it all hooked up I flicked the on switch and it works great, fans are humming and pretty blue LED's are shining. I go into the BIOS to manually set the RAM voltage and frequency as the p55m ud2 does not support 1600mhz by default and then I pop in the Windows 7 cd and start installing.
That was 4 hours ago. The goddamn thing won't install. I get an error message when the installer attempts to extract the files it needs (0x80070017). I've been all over the internet and found something like a thousand different people with the same problem and about a hundred proposed solutions, about 89 of which have yet to work for me. One of the few things I feel I haven't tried (and am of course unable to try until tomorrow) is burning a new copy of the install cd at a lower speed.
I was supposed to be playing SC2 by now.
Son. Of. A. Bitch.
 
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this is terrible  i hope you can get it working soon did you try installing vista/xp?
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On July 28 2010 07:35 unit wrote:this is terrible i hope you can get it working soon did you try installing vista/xp?
Why the hell would you try vista/xp when you have 7?
Anyways, yeah when i burned my copy of win 7, i did it on the slowest speed
installed fine
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The only problem I can imagine is with the disc. I'd try burning another disc first.
I had this problem with an old XP disc that was scratched due to my stupidity.
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0x80070017 that # is ominously familiar for some reason..Gl getting this fixed though man.
Also I agree if you have xp maybe try installing it instead. All i hear about vista/windows 7 is how much trouble it gives you
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Man i know the feeling, what once seemed like a relatively simple task turns out to be a tedious grind that takes half of your day or more :|
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On July 28 2010 08:04 FyRe_DragOn wrote: that # is ominously familiar for some reason..Gl getting this fixed though man. Also I agree if you have xp maybe try installing it instead. All i hear about vista/windows 7 is how much trouble it gives you
All that code means is that the computer cannot read the CD, it has nothing to do with software at all... possible causes are:
1. scratched cd
2. defective set of cds (the whole stack may be dead)
3. shit on the cd
4. burning error (rare)
5. shit in the cd drive (on the reading lens)
By far the most common is a scratched or dirty disc...clean it and if that doesn't work then reburn the disc.
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That code is SUPPOSED to mean there's a problem with the disc, but going online I've found people who've used it on other computers just fine, who've got it working after removing a stick of RAM, who've done most anything in fact and then suddenly get it working. But yeah, trying another disc today.
Also, I would use Windows XP, but the 32bit doesn't allow for more than 3 gigs of RAM and the 64bit is shit.
edit: in case anyone stumbles on this later, the solution came in the form of installing via a usb stick.
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EPT
