blue screen

[lulumara]

Hi , i did changed my hard drive the old one was toasted then when I started to format and load the Operating system XP media it flashes a blue screen -the screen of death as they may says. What should the factor that made this screen blue any idea , Oh since then it happens to me all the time the blue screen appearing all the time on my old hard drive and my xp prof. is not original I was given by the chinese computer who sell it to me but this computer was kinda old about 3 to 4 yrs old already no warranty at all I was fool by the computer company that I bought it. What should I do to make it working again? The Xp media software was operating system of my other computer, I was thinking it will load but unluckily it doesn't.

 

[PC eye]

For a new drive on a prebuilt system you would need a new disk since the original branded will no longer work anyways due to no longer seeing the recovery information placed on the drive when new. Faulty ram is the chief suspect often however when seeing BSODs when trying to install a fresh copy of Windows on any machine.

With a prepared boot floppy with that being an older system or the image burned to a cd-r memtest would be a good method to see if the memory installed is bad and needs replacement. The two sites for memtest are seen at http://www.memtest.org/ having the latest versions found there. Or at http://www.memtest86.com/ where you can order it already on cd for the cost of the disk plus shipping.