Help installing Battlefield 1942 from disk Error Number: 0x80010105

[Saulkar]

Hello there Escapist, mind helping a chap out?

I installed the game just fine on my laptop a couple days ago and have in the past (same disk 4 years ago) installed it on my old workstation. Both Windows 7 64 Bit.

However whenever I try to install it on my current workstation I get the error "Error Number: 0x80010105 Description: The server threw an exception. Setup will now terminate. " as the installation launches.

What information I have been able to gather imply that I have some corrupted information in my registry left over from a previous installation however I have never installed this game on this workstation before and have run a couple of registry cleaning software (Auslogic and Microsoft) which found absolutely no problems.

I do not know if it helps but here are the specs of the three systems.

Spoiler: Mah 3D rigs

Old Workstation: I7 940, GTX 285, 12GB Ram, Windows 7 64 Bit.

Laptop: 3740qm, 680m, 32GB Ram, Windows 7 64 Bit.

Current Workstation: 3930K, 2x GTX 670 - Non-SLI, 64GB Ram, Windows 7 64 Bit.

P.S. This error has never happened to me before on any computer with any program.

 

[Albino Boo]

You could try manually removing the key from your registry
go to start and in the search bar type regedit then its

HKEY_LOCAL MACHINE->software->WOW3264Node->EA->right click Battlefield 1942 and select delete.

Then go back up to HKEY_LOCAL MACHINE->software

then down to Microsoft->Windows->currentversion->uninstall then right click {A8DBF55D-73C0-4E37-A10E-365BFBB14119} and delete

 

[Saulkar]

You could try manually removing the key from your registry
go to start and in the search bar type regedit then its

HKEY_LOCAL MACHINE->software->WOW3264Node->EA->right click Battlefield 1942 and select delete.

Then go back up to HKEY_LOCAL MACHINE->software

then down to Microsoft->Windows->currentversion->uninstall then right click {A8DBF55D-73C0-4E37-A10E-365BFBB14119} and delete

Unfortunately I was not able to find any of those in my registy but I did discover some corrupted BF3 components that were causing other errors. Thanks anyways.