BSOD when installing XP

bigjimmyauk · 21 Jan 2011 at 13:06

Asking this for my bro as he is at work.

Basically put the xp CD in and select it as first boot device it starts to load up the first menu where you select repair, install etc etc but as soon as the bar as finished it BSOD's with the error boot drive failure. Now considering we ain't even got into installing XP yet could boot drive error mean the cd drive is fubar

this is the screen it don't even get to before it BSOD's there is a screen before it reaches this one where it loads up stuff on the bottom bar.

paradisiac · 21 Jan 2011 at 13:09

i would say cd/drive error or maybe hard drive? does the bios see the hard drive ok? have you had any issue before, ie. was there a problem forcing you to reinstall windows?

Ch3m1c4L · 21 Jan 2011 at 13:12

wipe cd/re burn and try again.
Dodgy hdd
Dodgy cd drive
Whats the spec? Is it on a sata port with AHCI turned on or something?

edit: oh and if its got any OC on it, turn it off.

bigjimmyauk · 21 Jan 2011 at 13:27

paradisiac said:
i would say cd/drive error or maybe hard drive? does the bios see the hard drive ok? have you had any issue before, ie. was there a problem forcing you to reinstall windows?

It's an old mobo and cpu soket 939 bios see's the HDD's fine and the CD drive. The HDD is set to native IDE mode and not achi

the motherboard in question is http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=1939#ov

Ch3m1c4L said:
wipe cd/re burn and try again.
Dodgy hdd
Dodgy cd drive
Whats the spec? Is it on a sata port with AHCI turned on or something?

edit: oh and if its got any OC on it, turn it off.

No overclock it's all at stock and the rest is as above, i thought with it failing before it even starts installing anything that it could be the CD drive which is failing or something wrong with the disc.

J.B · 21 Jan 2011 at 15:28

Disable anything you can in the BIOS, sound, ethernet, serial port. Once XP has installed, re-enable them

paradisiac · 21 Jan 2011 at 15:31

are you sure components/cables are good? has the machine worked recently and you just wanted to fresh install to clean it up, or has it been sat for a while?
thinking condensation on the lens cant help

Ivyforce · 21 Jan 2011 at 16:25

is your cd drive sata or ide?

I remember an issue with xp and installing from sata cd/dvd drives.

paradisiac · 22 Jan 2011 at 13:51

did you resolve this problem?

bigjimmyauk · 22 Jan 2011 at 14:10

paradisiac said:
did you resolve this problem?

My brother is getting hold of another CD drive to try first i'll be speaking to him later to get an update whats going on. I don't know why he didn't just post in this thread like i suggested LOL

bigjonnyauk · 22 Jan 2011 at 19:26

still waiting to get a cd drive chaps its weird mobo sees the hard drive i have the cd drive connected via ide to master and the hard drive is connected by sata now i think i can rule out hard drive due to the following what do you think.

my old 40 gig hard drive already has xp installed on it but i just wanted a bigger hard drive and got one from forums on here .

put in new hard drive boot from cd and put in xp disc loads the drivers then when it says starting windows it fails with bsod.

i swap hard drives over and try again with the older hard drive i know is working and it does exactley the same.

i set in the bios to boot from hard drive with the old hard drive in and it boots into windows fine.

also i put the xp disc in the drive after booted into windows and it shows as blank cd which it shouldnt should it , it should boot me to a repair thing

paradisiac · 23 Jan 2011 at 08:26

bigjonnyauk said:
also i put the xp disc in the drive after booted into windows and it shows as blank cd which it shouldnt should it , it should boot me to a repair thing

it should have lots of files on it, would suspect faulty drive or disc. have you tried a disc other than windows? does that show up in windows?

bigjonnyauk · 23 Jan 2011 at 14:41

yeah played a dvd and also a disc with multi files on it showed up fine

paradisiac · 23 Jan 2011 at 18:25

bigjonnyauk said:
yeah played a dvd and also a disc with multi files on it showed up fine

looking like suspect cd then and not the drive.

TWiNKLeT0Es · 23 Jan 2011 at 19:26

bigjonnyauk said:
i have the cd drive connected via ide to master

If its on its own with no other device attached then select CS (Cable Select) Jumper.

Try slip streaming your Windows CD/DVD with SP3: http://www.nliteos.com/

This is very sound advice with XP:

J.B said:
Disable anything you can in the BIOS, sound, ethernet, serial port. Once XP has installed, re-enable them