Blue screen at XP Install

1kiwi · 18 Apr 2008 at 23:02

Hi Guys,

Need a little help. I have an existing 74gb Raptor with vista 64 on it. I have just bought a 1 tb F1 and my plan was to set up a dual boot.

So i booted off my dvd drive with the XP install disk and the windows setup started like normal. I was able to load all drivers but when the status bar changed to "Windows is now starting", it just hung for a while and then i got a blue screen.

I assume that the Vista 64 installation was conflicting with the XP install process. Will i have remove the Raptor, install XP on the F1 and then format the raptor from within XP?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Cheers.

1kiwi · 18 Apr 2008 at 23:11

cokecan72 said:
have you tried unplugging the raptor while you install xp?

Not yet. Should i unplug the raptor, install XP and then format the raptor from within XP - then install Vista 64?

Little lost here :confused:

1kiwi · 19 Apr 2008 at 00:17

cheers. I'll give it a go.

1kiwi · 19 Apr 2008 at 09:53

One last question. I'm assuming that i have to duplicate installing all my mobo and system drivers on both OS's?

1kiwi · 19 Apr 2008 at 10:25

OK, *UPDATE* - I just unplugged my Raptor and plugged in my F1. Under AHCI config, the bios appears to be picking up the drive fine. I then get into the windows setup, get past the loading of the drivers and then right at the point at which it says, setup is starting windows it hangs and then eventually blue screens!

I'm now thinking it's AHCI. Also, i have reset my clock to 2400Mhz with a vcore of 1.3. This has had no effect.

Should i format and partition the drive in windows and try again?

1kiwi · 19 Apr 2008 at 11:12

Right, formatting the drive now. I doubt that will make any difference though. It looks like this is an AHCI issue.

1kiwi · 19 Apr 2008 at 19:17

bump anyone?

1kiwi · 20 Apr 2008 at 10:06

Problem solved. I just used Magic ISO to extract and then nlite to slipstream.