I truely don't know what to tell you... It's an error message that has never come up in any other installation program except this one. So there is not even general information related to it. There must be an underlying issue that is not immediately evident. Do you have the latest Service Packs, etc installed on the box? Can you tell us about the hardware? Maybe it has something to do with a device driver, like the COM port drivers. Try disabling the COM ports, etc..

Bradley