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Getting bluescreen on new os install on a new hardrive

Forum General UK & Ireland Discussions : Getting bluescreen on new os install on a new hardrive

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Hello guys and girl.

I've been having some major issues with my computer, it was blue screening, so i went and buy a brand new hard drive, get my computer to its core and trying to install os7 on the new hard drive but every time i try to install os, i am getting the blue screen of death.

"A problem has been detected and window has shut down to prevent damage to your computer. Then it goes further to say, check hardware bios, disable and press f8 and so forth. It gives a technical information of stop: 0x0000007e and a few others"

What is causing that or is my motherboard messed up.

Many thanks in advance

Reply to bl4ckman
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My first thought on this is that it might be a memory issue. If you've not changed anything other than the drive and the error occurs either booting your old OS or when installing Win7 then we can assume it must be HW related. My suggestion would be to run Memtest for a while on the system and see if it gives any errors.

Go to: http://www.memtest86.com/

Click on the link for free download. You want the Windows ISO. Burn this to CD, boot your PC from it and then let it run the tests. Depending on your PC this can take a few hours.

Let us know how you get on and we can take it from there.

Reply to audiovoodoo

If only Windows install disks came with an integrity checker like the ones for Ubuntu do. Then you just boot the disk, run the check and it checks the hash value. But then that's for a downloaded distribution. Windows install disks tend to be fine, unless there is physical damage or people torrent them.

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