I'm currently running XP Home Edition on an Intel P4 with a 2.8ghz
processor speed, and with 1Gb of RAM.

I've tried to install the following games for my son :-

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (EA Games)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (EA Games)
Madden NFL 2002 (EA Sports)

Every time I try to install each game from its CD-Rom, I get the
following message on the screen :-

"RPC server unavailable - installation engine failed to initialise"

At first I assumed this was happening because of some possible
conflict between the EA software and my pc, but this was then
eliminated as I managed to install Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2003 (EA
Sports) and FIFA 2000 (EA Sports) without any problems at all.

Any suggestions or solutions would be much appreciated.

If you would rather send the suggestions to me directly rather than
post on here please mail to adt67@yahoo.com

Thanks
Andrew

andrewt67 wrote:

> I'm currently running XP Home Edition on an Intel P4 with a 2.8ghz
> processor speed, and with 1Gb of RAM.
>
> I've tried to install the following games for my son :-
>
> Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (EA Games)
> Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (EA Games)
> Madden NFL 2002 (EA Sports)
>
> Every time I try to install each game from its CD-Rom, I get the
> following message on the screen :-
>
> "RPC server unavailable - installation engine failed to initialise"
>
> At first I assumed this was happening because of some possible
> conflict between the EA software and my pc, but this was then
> eliminated as I managed to install Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2003 (EA
> Sports) and FIFA 2000 (EA Sports) without any problems at all.
>
> Any suggestions or solutions would be much appreciated.


Might this be one of the games that need to be installed whilst
connected to the EA server over the internet? If this is the case,
then make the internet connection.