rec.autos.simulators

This is the most agonizing problem I've ever had!  I had GPL installed on my
brand new K6-III 450 PC when it developed a glitch.  I impulsively decided
to uninstall GPL and... wait for it... now I can't re-install!

When I go through the setup process, I get to where Seup says, "This is not
a valid CD." I feel very embarrassed now, also because this sounds like what
you get when you try to install off a bad illegal CD.

Is there anybody who can tell me how I can possibly fix this?  My guess is
that Setup thinks the CD doesn't fit the Windows version, maybe because of
regional settings, but why would it have installed fine before?  That was
only last week!

Any help is greatly appreciated and please, keep it legal.  Thanks.

Regards,

Laurens de Jong, The Netherlands.

Hans

Look at the datasurface of the cd. Does it appear to be scratched? Then
you might get it repaired with a cd-polish-set, available at good
cd-stores. Give it a try, this solved my problem very well.

Bye!
Crash

1. copy everything on the CD to the directory you want, excpet the
"surface" folder or something, it's around 500 MB, so you'll know wich
one it is :-)

2. create a "players" folder and an "exports" folder

3. make sure everything is not write protected

And, it's not a faulty CD, mine has been in the cover when not in use,
and it looks like new, not a scratch, weird............

You may experience some lockups until you've created a default setup for
each track, but as soon as you have that, you should be ok, hope this
helps.......

--

Beers and cheers
(uncle) Goy

"Team Mirage" http://www.teammirage.com/
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Mart Hugh Rogers

When my old 6x gave up the ghost, I bought an HP CDRW to replace it (6x2x2
which was good at the time!)
Then along came GPL, and the CDRW wouldn't read it. Don't know why, but to
this day if I put the GPL CD in that drive, windows Blue-Screens.
So I bought a Panasonic 32x CD-ROM as a reader, keeping the HP as a writer.
This new drive reads the CD fine, but gives me the unofficial CD message
(which is ***y annoying when you've paid for a game!) when I try to
install. (But finds the CD perfectly OK to play the game!).

I finally tracked it down to the way my drives are set up. For reliable CD
writing the CD Writer should be the master on one of your IDE channels, and
the reader the slave. The GPL install seems to ignore the drive letter of
the CD-ROM it was installed from and just check the master CD-ROM.

The simplest solution I have found for this is to:
(1) Switch off my PC.
(2) Unplug the CD-writer IDE ribbon from the back.
(3) Reboot PC. It then thinks it only has the one CD.
(4) Install GPL (it only has one CD-ROM to look at, so it works)
(5) Switch PC off again.
(6) Re-insert IDE ribbon.
(7) Reboot.
Windows seems to manage this without asking for any drivers, so apart from
the obvious pain in the arse of fiddling around with your case and cables
etc, it's relatively hassle free.

The strange thing is that one of my housemates also has a CD-Writer and
CD-ROM (different models, but set up the same way), and he doesn't have the
problem, even when installing from the Slave drive. All a bit odd really.

Anyway, if you've got more than 1 CD, give it a whirl.

Hope that helps,

Mike West

-Laurens de Jong.

--

Beers and cheers
(uncle) Goy

"Team Mirage" http://www.teammirage.com/
"The Pits"    http://www.theuspits.com/