Blue Screen During Windows Installation

DarkJokerX · 04-26-2006, 05:13 PM

I am gettign a Blue Screen of Death when installing Windows XP. The error I am getting is NV4_MIMI.SYS

Anyone now what I should do?

DarkJokerX · 04-26-2006, 09:16 PM

*Bump* Please Help

PCHelpWorld · 04-26-2006, 09:40 PM

is it an original disc? because it could be that the disc is faulty and may be scratched preventing the drive from reading a specific sector

PC eye · 04-26-2006, 09:41 PM

What type of disk are you using to put XP on with? Full install, Recovery, or an upgrade? Are you installing to a clean drive with a fresh partition or trying to overwrite a current OS? Check the condition of the disk itself for scratches
and finger prints, smudges, etc..

Ku-sama · 04-26-2006, 11:51 PM

disk is clean, the harddrive was formatted..

DarkJokerX · 04-27-2006, 02:38 AM

*bump*

spraybottle · 04-27-2006, 02:42 AM

Are you sure that the disk is clean? Was it copyed or anything? Maybe the cd is corrupted...

**Shady** · 04-27-2006, 06:51 AM

i had the same problem with different errors everytime
and the reason was because i installed 3 different RAMs
they were all 256 DDR 333
but different manufactures
i removed one of them and the computer worked fine

DarkJokerX · 04-27-2006, 12:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shadyi

i had the same problem with different errors everytime
and the reason was because i installed 3 different RAMs
they were all 256 DDR 333
but different manufactures
i removed one of them and the computer worked fine

I will check that in my 3rd p class today and post if that was it but the comp was running fine before I was just trying to reformat and reinstall windows.

tlarkin · 04-27-2006, 03:23 PM

whenever an OS installs it loads instruction sets into memory to be paged by the processor. This includes virtual memory, system cache, and RAM. If any of those are defective, or perhaps even incompatable you will have issues loading an OS.

I would remove all ram except one stick and then start from there and see what happens.

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DarkJokerX Gold Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Centreville, MD Age: 20 Posts: 298	Blue Screen During Windows Installation I am gettign a Blue Screen of Death when installing Windows XP. The error I am getting is NV4_MIMI.SYS Anyone now what I should do? __________________ Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6850 @ 3.00GHz Memory: 2046MB RAM Hard Drive: 320 GB Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT Operating System: Windows Vista™ Ultimate

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04-26-2006, 09:41 PM	#4 (permalink)
PC eye Diamond Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Inside a pc Posts: 19,005	What type of disk are you using to put XP on with? Full install, Recovery, or an upgrade? Are you installing to a clean drive with a fresh partition or trying to overwrite a current OS? Check the condition of the disk itself for scratches and finger prints, smudges, etc..

04-26-2006, 11:51 PM	#5 (permalink)
Ku-sama banned Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Computer Cave. AKA: King Computer Inc. Age: 18 Posts: 5,312	disk is clean, the harddrive was formatted..

04-27-2006, 02:42 AM	#7 (permalink)
spraybottle Silver Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 164	Are you sure that the disk is clean? Was it copyed or anything? Maybe the cd is corrupted...

04-27-2006, 06:51 AM	#8 (permalink)
Shady Moderator Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Cairo Age: 20 Posts: 2,337	i had the same problem with different errors everytime and the reason was because i installed 3 different RAMs they were all 256 DDR 333 but different manufactures i removed one of them and the computer worked fine

04-27-2006, 03:23 PM	#10 (permalink)
tlarkin VIP Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Kansas City, MO Posts: 5,954	whenever an OS installs it loads instruction sets into memory to be paged by the processor. This includes virtual memory, system cache, and RAM. If any of those are defective, or perhaps even incompatable you will have issues loading an OS. I would remove all ram except one stick and then start from there and see what happens.