Windows XP setup error, Not reading a file correctly on all cds?

[cims420]

Hello, I just got my computer last night and put it together. It fired up and loaded the bios, everything was going good.

Untill i went to install windows, it said file reading error on some file., it does it with serveral different windows cds. So this means it must be on my side. I am clueless on what could cause a file read error on a cd-rom that was working when i pulled it from my old computer.

mobo: ASUS P5NSLI
processor: intel core 2 dual 1.8ghz
HD: 2x40gb set master, slave.
cd-rom:dvd-r/w in bay 1, cd/rw in bay2
ram: pqi TURBO 2GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820141064

 

[bmxfreakrider]

uhh...cad ram? how many sticks r u usin?

 

[cims420]

Two sticks. 1gb each. bios sees them.

 

[bmxfreakrider]

pull a stick, and try again, if it still errors, try the other.(ive built a few pc's and bad ram can cause weird cd errors, before i found out it was the ram, i always thought it was microsoft just ****ing with me)

 

[bmxfreakrider]

o. and if that dont work, update the bios, and check every connection in the pc, check your hdd/cd jumpers, and make sure the mobo has all o fits power ocnnectors connected.

 

[Romani48]

well some times happens i've had that problem before and it wasn't with a new pc! i need to have at least 5 WinXP cds and in the end it installed but took me a while!! and now i can install the windows without problem with those same cd's