Hi all,

I'm having some major trouble with installing programs on this machine.

I can live with a couple of the issues (design review & IES ve-ware), but I really need to install 1 of these programs asap (Autodesk 3ds max design)

It will start the installation process absolutelly fine, when it gets about a minute in though (the status bar is at the 'writing registry values' stage) it just stops, throws up a splash screen telling me that nothing was installed, and directs me to the installation log.

The log file simply says - 'Installation was aborted - error 1603'.

I've done ALL the fixes for 1603 I could fins anywhere on the net. The drive I'm installing to is my C drive which is totally open, and the SYSTEM account has all access rights. I did install service pack 3 (against my will...) which was said to sort it out, but it didn't (so i've uninstalled it again...).

I've run a HiJack This scan, just incase it enlightened any of you more technically gifted people to what the issue could be - see below...

 HJT_Log.txt ( 11.67K ) Number of downloads: 2


Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

This post has been edited by appleoddity: Oct 16 2009, 11:06 AM

Ok.. I'm really not seeing anything in those logs either. I see that you are installing several different components at once.

It might help to do a "custom" install, and select only the max design software. For instance, documentation is also being installed. All of that is generating multiple log files and making it difficult. I look at the one log that appears to be for the max design program itself but I don't see anything hinting to what the problem is.

Can you verify what version of Windows XP you are running, 32-bit or 64-bit?

Secondly, try creating a folder on your desktop temporarily and copy the contents of the DVD to that folder. See if it is successful, and then run the setup program from within that folder rather than from the DVD.