Many people had problems with their install - it didn't read the CD ROM correctly and/or the CD was bad. I don't recall the particulars on how to tell if that was a problem, but it had to do with looking for zero-byte files somwhere.The other common problem was drivers - and making sure you had the latest (though for a lot of people it seemed to work better if they had the next to latest).
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