Have tried to install Suse10.1, with no success on a upgraded PC
The CD installation begins as it should-customary welcome screens, etc. & continues to chug along seemingly loading the necessary drivers, etc.

The installtion then stalls with the error message cannot copy or read CD image. The installtion is halted, etc.

I have tried using other CD/DVD players (old and newer versions) on the same PC only to get the same errors. This would seem to rule out a hardware problem.

I had no problems installing on other PC's using the same CD's.

I even tested installing windows 2000 and XP on this same PC with no errors.

I have tried several different hard drives - IDE and Sata all with the same result. I have even cleared the CMOS on the motherboard.

Any suggestions?

First of all, if your computer is recent enough (you said upgraded), why not try openSUSE 10.2 instead of the older 10.1?

It seems to me you have tried almost everything. I guess my only suggestion is to try to re-burn the SUSE iso/isos at a slower speed (even if the present one[s] work on other PCs) and see what happens. That, or triple check you're not trying to play a DVD in a CD drive lol.

Let us know what happens.

Sounds like 10.1 can't identify the PATA/SATA controller automatically. When the red box ("can't read from CD") is displayed, hit enter. The next box should display a few options, among them something like "Load kernel modules". Chose this, then enter the part related to "IDE modules", and chose the module (=driver) for your controller (you could also try "ide-generic"). You should, of course, know which one it is. If you don't, ask google about the name of your board.

BTW as blink suggested, you might give 10.2 a try, it's said to have improved PATA/SATA driver support. BTW2 quite a lot of people encounter trouble with their IDE controllers, the JMicron on the P5B VM being a prominent example (which took me quite a few minutes to google out last weekend, when I installed my new machine).

HTH

try reburning the cds, secondly if it still fails try modifying the installation boot line to be NOapic and install without ACPI. If you are using raid, then you should definitely give 10.2 a try. Otherwise you may have to force Sata to be read as PATA through bios.