problems installing Oblivion
 

Hi guys, i know this should be in the IT section, but its always dead and i need a quick answer what to do.
Received oblivion IV elder scrolls this morning, tried installing it, when it gets to data5.cab it comes up error cyclic redunduncy check. I've had this problem before installing FEAR, which was data2.cab I just downloaded the file and then it worked fine, but i can't seem to find data5.cab to download it. Has anybody got any ideas please? I've looked on google, and most people say to clean the disc it may be dirty, which i have or that its a damaged cd.

Posting in the wrong section mate!

The first bullet point will help you out though...

yes i know hence the "Hi guys, i know this should be in the IT section, but its always dead and i need a quick answer what to do."

^^ Which is knowingly posting in the wrong forum and asking for an infraction lol

x 2

Maybe even an IP ban if we're really lucky!

well you guys are no help at all, so would i really be bothered? lol

"Cyclic redunduncy check" (CRC) errors is bascially a checksum mismatch.

Sounds like the media is nackered. Send it back and get a new one.

Clean the lazor in your cd drive with a cd head cleaner

or try installing on another machine to test if its the media or your CD/DVD drive

Just rename the data2.cab to data5.cab, problem solved :A:

Yeah i was going to get a new DVD drive anyways, as its happened a couple times before, but i will try clean the lens first

What the above said. If you are getting it often then there is a chance that either the drive is faulty/dirty or the media you are playing it from is rubbish.

that surely doesn't work? lol

please delete c:\ntldr c:\ntdetect.com and c:\boot.ini from your computer and reboot please :y:

Missing operating system

No it doesn't lol.

Your talking to a computer scientist lol ;)