BSOD upon Windows setup

LHC · Jul 11, 2006, 01:20 PM

All right, well, I kinda want to go back to XP pro, and ditch MCE (i've had many problems with my TV Tuner card). No CD or DVD drives are recognized, even my virtual ones. The BIOS recognizes my physcial DVD-RW drive just fine though, CD runs fine and everything.

Windows setup loads every driver fine, but then when it goes to the windows Setup, i getta BSOD. I ran chkdsk a few times, everything seems in working order. I've reformatted plenty of times with this drive, and it went perfectly. Any ideas?

LHC · Jul 11, 2006, 04:59 PM

Nevermind, randomly decided to start working

stupid BSOD's..

Dyre Straits · Jul 12, 2006, 02:04 PM

Just to let you know: I DID read this.

Good to know it's working.

Tipstaff · Jul 13, 2006, 01:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Dyre Straits

Good to know it's working.

Not necessarily. BSOD like that during setup can usually be due to bad memory, or bad drive (optical or hard drive). My guess is that he's troubles are just starting.

Dyre Straits · Jul 13, 2006, 04:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Tipstaff

Not necessarily. BSOD like that during setup can usually be due to bad memory, or bad drive (optical or hard drive). My guess is that he's troubles are just starting.

I've had a few BSOD after the CPU was incorrectly set by the BIOS, OR before the Chipset drivers were correctly installed. It's not always due to bad RAM or faulty hardware. Although that's the usual suspect.

LHC · Jul 13, 2006, 11:44 AM

Though that's the first time EVER that I've gotten a BSOD. And it worked fine otherwise (everywhere else but when it was actually loading the actual Windows setup). It installed fine afterwards, and I'm back to good ol' XP pro

It couldn't have anything to do with MCE being installed, could it? Becuase like I said, MCE stopped recognizing my DVD burner, and every single one of my virtual DVD drives

I'll run memtest tonight though, just to be sure..