PC hardware forum: "Please insert the correct CD-ROM, select OK and restart....

So what your saying is that i have the wrong divers installed for my motherboard?

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Fixed what ? I have not fixed anything from the original problem that i posted in the first post....sorry if im not making much sense, but you are not making much to me....

Gibbo

Did this ever work or did it stop working after you re-installed XP? I believe that is waht is being asked.
If it stopped working after you re-installed XP, then unless it was a recover disk, you probably did not get the latest motherboard drivers, unless you re-installed those as well and it may not be recognizing that functionality in your drive.

If it has been working since you re-installed XP, then look to the drive or something associated with the drive as the culprit (e.g. IDE port, cable, heat etc.).

Just to let you know, C&C Generals v1.0 and upwards definately works with Windows XP, so that is not the problem.

I bought a computer with an AMD motherboard and Windows XP installed, and have not had any problems with motherboard drivers so I assume that HP sorted all that out, as I would expect from a new computer. If XP has been reinstalled however this could be what is messing up.

Generals is a very resource intensive game, and as thus you want to ensure that everything is fully up to date so that everything works OK. Make sure you have the latest Service Pack for Windows XP, all your drivers are up to date, especially motherboard drivers, CD drive drivers, graphics card drivers and sound card drivers.

The problem itself is caused by the protection EA Games puts on the CD to prevent it being copied. If the disk is not detected to be a real copy, then the error message you are encountering will be displayed. (Perhaps this might be caused by an old CD drive or drivers? This may be the reason that the copy protection cannot detect the CD as being real.) If you have a legit copy of Generals though I see no reason why this would be displayed. Try reinstalling Generals after you are sure all the drivers etc. are up to spec, and maybe you could contact EA Games for help?

The only other reasons I can conceive for your problems is any conflicting software. A software firewall could be causing problems, I use ZoneAlarm and it asks you if you want to let game.dat access the internet, allow it.

If nothing works, go back to the shop and ask for a replacement disk.

Hope this helps.

Adi

And you've got to ask the programmer why he wrote it to crash if he doesn't get it. We don't know.

Kees

I just now fiqured out the problem I was having after
3 days and reformatting my HD with no luck.
If you still have a problem let me know if:

You have are using Nforce Motherboard Drivers.

I have a Gigabyte MB and when I downloaded and installed the new drivers, in the middle of the process it will ask me if I want to install a
different driver. I kept saying yes. But I read the fine print and found out that I should not have.
Reinstalled the drivers again, saying no this time, and solved the problem.
Hope this helps.


Nforce driver