Duel Boot, XP Instal BSOD!

ssmacc · 5 Apr 2007 at 09:49

Hello,

I’ve got a problem duel booting, I’ve installed Vista 64 (yes I want XP back!). I insert the XP disc and boot from CD, some times I get to the stage where set up ask me to repair or install XP sometimes I don’t (Freezes) I sometimes get as far as choosing a install directly. If I get this far it almost inevitable gives me the blue screen of death after I’ve picked the install drive (this happens to be H, same drive as C – I’ve got 3 portioned drives and the drive letters are quite strange)

The error I receive is:

STOP 0x0000008E (0XC0000006, 0X090EEA7, 0XF6F82690, 0X00000000)

Although I have received:

STOP 0X0000008E (0X0000006, 0X8090EEA7, 0XF6F691C, 0X00000000)

The only plus side is that Vista’s set up repir (from the DVD) is actually quite good! I’ve had a look round and it seems the problem could be RAM, I have taken out and moved around the RAM but this makes no difference. Once Vista is booted performance is reliable and very good.

E6300, 2 GB 800 Geil Low Latency Ram, ASUS P5N-E Sli (~3 weeks old from OC)

I just want to duel boot, as I’ve found out the hard way vista needs a lot more support from manufactures!

Cheers

Priapus · 5 Apr 2007 at 09:57

I did setup my dual boot last night.

But with Vista Ultimate 32 Bit.

Get memtest and test your memory is the first thing I would do. Or if you have no infomation on the PC, format the HDD and install XP first then install Vista.

ssmacc · 5 Apr 2007 at 13:45

Thanks, ran memtest and no errors, any other ideas?

Priapus · 5 Apr 2007 at 13:55

How long did you run it for?

ssmacc · 5 Apr 2007 at 14:02

118%, no errors (about an hour) is it a test i should leave over night?

Priapus · 5 Apr 2007 at 14:22

Half an hour really isn't long enough at all. But should be okay. Can you try reinstalling the OS from scratch? Format the drive and start over?

ssmacc · 5 Apr 2007 at 15:00

I’m a bit wary about reinstalling vista as I can’t install XP, don’t want to be left unable to boot the PC al all…I’ll try XP again soon and see if it works, could it problem with the portion? Vista is on the C drive and the next drive on the hard disk is G? There is a D drive etc but there located on different physical drives. Just don’t get how Vista can run fine but BSOD when I try and install XP? PC’s really **** me off sometimes! (thanks for your suggestions so far by the way!)

Priapus · 5 Apr 2007 at 15:04

Ah, I see.

Well, do you have an old hard drive about? Maybe you could try installing XP onto that?

There really shouldn't be any problems, as I did what you're trying to do last night 100% fine..I have decided to use Xp pro more now anyway.

You can't assign D: because that is your CD/DVD drive.

UKDTweak · 5 Apr 2007 at 15:10

Are you trying to install XP AFTER Vista, if so, then you cant, you must install XP first then Vista on another partition or drive.

Priapus · 5 Apr 2007 at 15:18

UKDTweak said:
Are you trying to install XP AFTER Vista, if so, then you cant, you must install XP first then Vista on another partition or drive.

You can, as I did last night.

I made a small 80Gb partition using Vista's Storage Manager and then rebooted with Xp cd in, made a new partition and installed it on there.

ssmacc · 5 Apr 2007 at 15:21

I’m installing XP after Vista and have a different partition for it, I’m following a guide so I don’t think that’s the problem, it’s the Blue Screen of Death I get intermittently (at different stages during the set up process) during XP install, or Freeze before I even get to pick a drive to install XP on…

I’ve got ‘EasyBCD 1.52’ installed waiting set duel boot, but I can’t get near that stage…

Priapus · 5 Apr 2007 at 16:21

Is the cd 100% okay, the XP one?

What about that hard drive?

ssmacc · 5 Apr 2007 at 16:38

I've used the CD loads of times before and i keep it safe so I’m assuming that’s OK, I’m in the process of checking the hard drive although i wouldn't mind tips on the best way of checking it? Just changed it to a primary partition on the hope that would magically fix it!

Priapus · 5 Apr 2007 at 16:49

Run a check disk on the drive and scan it for errors?

ssmacc · 6 Apr 2007 at 16:58

Scan disk etc results in no errors

Something strange is going on! I’ve just discovered that if I eject Vista from my PC and reboot, I get an ‘error loading operating system message’ before vista can even attempt to boot, but if I leave Vista in the DVD-ROM the PC first gives me the option to boot from CD/DVD (I press nothing) then boots into Vista no problem…there is something very strange going on!