I/O Error stopping Installation

[Gael33]

I'm trying to install Ubuntu 8.04 (32bit) on my 4 year old PC (AMD Athlon, 1 Gig Memory, Ati inbuilt graphics on a ASUS Motherboard, 115 Gb HDD) and each time I try to install the disc I get an I/O Error saying Error reading boot CD ... Reboot. I tried it several times all with the same result. I also tried 8.10, 9.04 and 9.10 all failed with the same Error Message. Incidentally, Windows (the original OS won't install either.
Any ideas? Any solutions? Maybe, I have overlooked something due to my lack of computing knowledge?
Grateful for any help.

gael.

[jjcv]

Sounds like you have a bad CD drive. You may need to replace it or borrow one....

[Gael33]

Sounds like you have a bad CD drive. You may need to replace it or borrow one....

Thanks for your reply ... I have in fact two drives and the result is the same :( Could it be something else?

[Zapster]

If it is not the drive and not the disc (you said you tried several discs) maybe your ram memory is corrupted.
Try to run a memory checker to see if that is causing this issue.

br
Josef