Blue screen when installing OS

[-0MEGA-] · 06-28-2005, 11:30 PM

This just started hapening very recently. My sister messed up our computer (kazaa, lots of sites with spyware) anyways, i had to reformat and reinstall windows on it. However, this time when i started to install Windows XP Home, during the setup i got a blue screen error message (something about page file dump), and i tried about 4 more times, and all of those times it got stuck while copying a file and it couldnt read any file past there. So i installed Windows 98SE, and i got a blue screen a few times, however i was able to finish the install and now its operational, but when i try to install XP Pro, it keeps giving me those blue screen error messages.

Do any of you know what could be causing this problem? at first i thought it was the cd because it was pretty scratched, but then i used win 98 which isnt scratched but it happened again. So now im thinking its either a hard drive, motherboard, or ram problem. And i tried taking that hard drive and putting it in my comp and installing XP home, but it happened to me to (and i have the same motherboard and ram on both comps).

Any help would be appreciated!

**apj101** · 06-28-2005, 11:59 PM

try removing one of your sticks and leave one in, repeat this process with all your ram taking turns. This may help identify any suspect sticks

06-28-2005, 11:30 PM	#1 (permalink)
[-0MEGA-] Diamond Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Concord, NH Age: 20 Posts: 27,082	Blue screen when installing OS This just started hapening very recently. My sister messed up our computer (kazaa, lots of sites with spyware) anyways, i had to reformat and reinstall windows on it. However, this time when i started to install Windows XP Home, during the setup i got a blue screen error message (something about page file dump), and i tried about 4 more times, and all of those times it got stuck while copying a file and it couldnt read any file past there. So i installed Windows 98SE, and i got a blue screen a few times, however i was able to finish the install and now its operational, but when i try to install XP Pro, it keeps giving me those blue screen error messages. Do any of you know what could be causing this problem? at first i thought it was the cd because it was pretty scratched, but then i used win 98 which isnt scratched but it happened again. So now im thinking its either a hard drive, motherboard, or ram problem. And i tried taking that hard drive and putting it in my comp and installing XP home, but it happened to me to (and i have the same motherboard and ram on both comps). Any help would be appreciated! __________________ Desktop // Laptop Core 2 Quad Q9550 @ 4.0GHz // Core 2 Duo P8400 2.26GHz Asus Rampage Formula X48 // Intel PM45 ATI 4870X2 2GB GDDR5 // 512MB GDDR3 9800M GTS 4GB (2x 2GB) DDR2 940 // 4GB DDR3 800 750GB SATAII w/32MB // 200GB SATAII 7200RPM Creative SB X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty SilverStone 750W +12V@60A 3DMark06: 21391 // 9179

06-28-2005, 11:59 PM	#2 (permalink)
apj101 Administrator Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: London Age: 26 Posts: 9,169	try removing one of your sticks and leave one in, repeat this process with all your ram taking turns. This may help identify any suspect sticks __________________ What did one snow man say to the other? can you smell carrot? The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. How you do anything, is how you do everything!

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