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Blue Screen of Death...without XP installed

by Geekme May 23, 2005 2:51AM PDT

I have a custom built home PC. It runs an AMD 2100+ 1.73Ghz 756GB Ram 80GB IBM Deskstar HHD GeForce 5500 256mb. I have recently unistalled everything and formated the hard drive, worte zeros to it. When i boot from the windows XP pro cd, it starts the loading proccess and then it says setup is starting windows, i hit enter to start install and then it either freezes up on me or i get the Blue Screen of Death. The message i get in the blue screen is a variety, its either IRQL-not-less-or equal too. Attempt to write to read only memory, Page fault, Driver IRQL not less or equal too and sometimes its just all Binanary Numbers. PLease help if you know of anything! thanks in advance!

John.

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Not uncommon with bad hardware.
by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator May 23, 2005 3:04AM PDT

The fun part is that Windows is not going to tell you where the issue is.

Try this.

Latest BIOS.
1 stick of RAM.
Underclock the CPU.

Bob

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Can you be a little more descriptive
by Geekme May 23, 2005 3:37AM PDT

OK? Dont i need to be able to get to the desktop of that computer to be able to install them? When you say 1 stick you mean i should just take 1 stick out right? How do you underclock a CPU? Sorry to make you explain it all i just dont know much about Over/Under Clocking and BIOS. Thanks alot for your help Proffitt

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About one stick.
by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator May 23, 2005 4:50AM PDT

As the builder, OS installer of the machine your knowledge of the parts inside is going to be key to fixing the machine. XP "glides" onto good hardware. Your hardware has some issue and to find it, we try with less parts.

If you can't identify "sticks of RAM" or feel uncomfortable with leaving just one stick in there for a test run, seek local support and repair.

As to underclocking, such is an advanced topic. The usual is to get to the BIOS screen and try the SAFE DEFAULTS. It can be labeled "FAIL SAFE" or other words. Since there is NO STANDARD here, you have to roll with the punches and use http://www.google.com to feel your way around. Again, if this makes you feel nervous, seek local repair and help.

Hope you fix it.

Bob

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If possible, try installing other OS, such as win98..
by Melati Hitam May 23, 2005 4:17AM PDT

If its works, then you have windows XP hardware compatibility problem... OR maybe.. just maybe.. bad windows xp installation CD.

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hardware problem probably
by reeveboy May 23, 2005 8:24AM PDT

maybe some hardware problem.

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