It is always a bad sign, but...
Sometimes you need to turn off the CPU L1 and/or L2 cache
in the BIOS, and/or underclock the CPU, or cut the voltage a notch.
It is a bad sign since you should not need to do that.
Are you sure the CD is perfectly clean?
Good luck, (I've been lucky lately.)
Rick Glazier
From: <dsinc218
But all my reads yesterday and today tell me that WinXP can NOT recognize SATA of any flavor (hard drives and CDROMs) w/o F6 added
drivers.
I have both........(via pata/sata converters!)...
Getting ready to try demoting the hard drive back to pata...
I did not think so either, but,.................. :(