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From: trant on 26 Sep 2009 16:58
I am trying to boot up my Windows setup disc on a new machine but I get the
following error:

CDBOOT Memory overflow error

The strange thing is if I booting any of my other machines with this disc it
would boot into Windows setup fine

Yet if I use any other bootable CD like my memory tester tool or even a
bootable Linux CD in this new machine they work fine

what could be the problem ??
From: Pegasus [MVP] on 26 Sep 2009 17:18

"trant" <trant(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:85ADB3FA-7920-400D-907F-76DF1CFD123E(a)microsoft.com...
>I am trying to boot up my Windows setup disc on a new machine but I get the
> following error:
>
> CDBOOT Memory overflow error
>
> The strange thing is if I booting any of my other machines with this disc
> it
> would boot into Windows setup fine
>
> Yet if I use any other bootable CD like my memory tester tool or even a
> bootable Linux CD in this new machine they work fine
>
> what could be the problem ??

Could be a marginal CD drive. Try booting with a burnt copy of this CD.


From: trant on 26 Sep 2009 19:09
Hello Pegasus - thank you for the prompt response!

It turns out it was something up with my SCSI drive... I am carrying over my
36 gig SCSI drive from my previous PC and for some reason it's causing
problems with this new machine. I was able to install Windows on it before...

Here's what happened - I unplugged the SCSI cable and the card and then
plugged them back in - this solved the CDBOOT Memory overflow error

But then in the beginning of Windows setup when it is saying it is
inspecting my hardware configuration I quickly get an error about:
"Inf file txtsetup.sif is corrupt or missing. Status 2"

So now I am stuck again.

If I completely unplugged that scsi adapter it does proceed with windows
setup going all the way to the screen asking me what partition to install to.
But I really want to utilize my SCSI drive for the OS as these other drives
are data drives I have already been using for years now and it would be a
huge hassle to move stuff off of one to install the OS to



"Pegasus [MVP]" wrote:

>
> "trant" <trant(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:85ADB3FA-7920-400D-907F-76DF1CFD123E(a)microsoft.com...
> >I am trying to boot up my Windows setup disc on a new machine but I get the
> > following error:
> >
> > CDBOOT Memory overflow error
> >
> > The strange thing is if I booting any of my other machines with this disc
> > it
> > would boot into Windows setup fine
> >
> > Yet if I use any other bootable CD like my memory tester tool or even a
> > bootable Linux CD in this new machine they work fine
> >
> > what could be the problem ??
>
> Could be a marginal CD drive. Try booting with a burnt copy of this CD.
>
>
>
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