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    My 7805u won't let me install Oblivion.

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by thegreatsquare, Jun 5, 2009.

  1. thegreatsquare

    thegreatsquare Notebook Deity

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    Since the problem has to be [for me] specific to the gateway, I figured I'd ask here.

    Problem with installshield, error 5006 [@ 0x8000ffff or something close to it]

    I have two original Oblivion discs and tried them both. I've installed successfully Oblivion on other systems I have with Vista x64 or XP with them. On this laptop I've just installed Crysis Warhead after failing with Oblivion and The Witcher, FEAR & STALKER: SoC both installed no problem before Oblivion failed.

    I did google to find that the others had this same problem, but the solutions offered were hit&miss.


    HELP! Oblivion is my favorite and though I haven't tried it yet I'm afraid I'll find the same problem with Fallout3.
     
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    qhn Notebook User

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    I did get it to work. Where one said to install it from the HDD and another said change a file name... Separately they didn't work and together they did for some stupid reason.
     
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    Try this:

    Go into your Programs/Common directory and find the InstallShield directory

    Rename the InstallShield directory to somethign like "InstallShield_Old"

    Then Install the game.

    This apparantly puts a new version of InstallShield on your computer.
     
    giografix, Jun 5, 2009
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