Blue Screen During Windows Installation

DarkJokerX

DarkJokerX

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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?
 
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
 
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..
 
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
 
shadyi said:
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
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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.
 
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.
 
well, the system was running perfectly fine before the format, but we'll try to pull the 256 out of it and keep the 512... although can an AXP system run dual channel?
 
Thanks for the help everyone I took out the ram one at a time and it still wouldent work then I serched the error code on google and it came out tobe my video card is bad. I needed to upgrade it on my old comp anyway.
 
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