CD-ROM Errors

studbagel9 · Nov 27, 2003, 04:38 PM

I have two games (Jedi Knight 3 and Splinter Cell) which will not install on my computer. Let me elaborate. My CD-ROM gives me a couple of different errors each time (Not just one CD-ROM, happens in both of them whenever I try to install). One says "Cyclic Redundancy Check" and the installation stops. The other error is something along the lines of "Illegal Function [something or another]", then it quits. Does anyone know what the cause of this could be? I've tried installing from both drives, and it happens at random intervals. I hope that this isn't completely indecipherable as it seems to be now that I'm reading it back to myself... Anyway, help is always appreciated ;p

Skull · Nov 27, 2003, 04:49 PM

Firstly are these games bought manufactured CDS? or are they warezed copies from a mate or something?

errors like this are generally caused by poor mastering and/or incompatibilies with the media used with the drives in question. This may sound extremely unusual but ill give you a solution that worked for me. I had a mafia cd I purchased from a CD sale and I couldnt get the damned thing to skip past some redundancy errors, so I ripped it via blindwrite to my HD to a bin and a cue file, then ran from daemon tools on the hard drive and it worked.

pretty drastic I know, but if you are all out of ideas its worth a try.

wertret · Nov 27, 2003, 05:23 PM

Skull is right. When i get Cyclic Redundancy errors usually is a scratch or a dirty cd.

Logla · Nov 27, 2003, 05:40 PM

I had similar problems with splinter cell and my old DVD/cd-RW combi drive. Nothing which used safedisk v2 would install/run on that drive.

studbagel9 · Nov 27, 2003, 05:59 PM

lol, this disc is scratched to hell, let me try again and see if just a quick clean will fix it. Thanks for the replies

studbagel9 · Nov 27, 2003, 06:03 PM

Quick question: does alcohol hurt cd's? Like rubbing alcohol?

studbagel9 · Nov 27, 2003, 07:23 PM

I cleaned the disc, that fixed my problem. Just in case you were wondering.

The_Neon_Cowboy · Nov 27, 2003, 11:22 PM

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Originally posted by studbagel9
Quick question: does alcohol hurt cd's? Like rubbing alcohol?

i dont think so .... bbut i use a specail anti ststic cleaners cleans like a dream....

alo might be a good idea to run a cd rom lens cleaner once in a whie u be suporzed the dust that gets in there after a long time