Compaq Help :( BSOD

[Andyrg@ ClioTurbo]

Really need some help guys!!

I have a Compaq presacrio cq70 laptop it was running windows vista, after a year and a half i decided i needed a full format and reinstall of windows XP ( i hate visa and 7 ) Any ways its churns its way via the intsall screen untill i get too the "set up is loading windows" very early on and get a blue screen

Check your hard drive to make sure its configed and terminated, run Check/F

STOP: 0x0000007b (oxf7ace524,0xc0000034,0x00000000,0x00000000)


I have rigged up my huge desktop on the tv just to type this!!

I have replaced the hard drive with a good working one and also the ram from aother wroking system from a friend.

Can any one Help

 

[fossie]

Give it to me you chod and my mate will have a look at it

 

[Andyrg@ ClioTurbo]

Lee thanks for that mate, BUT i used to be a Microsoft MCSE Engineer mate and have been playing with Pcs for over 15 years i assure you there is nothing you can do that i cant on this field i am pretty sure its a hard drive controler issue. but there is no info on this system

Sucks

 

[Andyrg@ ClioTurbo]

sorted now, ive thrown it against the wall and jumped on the pile of s**t!!!!! i wont ever buy a HP laptop again the customer service is a pile of s**t too with people who cant even speak english!!!!

Who in there mind is going to pay £269.99 to get the laptop sent off and fixed when i can get a new one for £400!! with a years warranty, Oh well its in the bin in bits and it felt GREAT

Bahhhhhhhhh HP

 

[Darren S]

That was a pretty common issue on my old PC mobo with Phenom quad-core and 4GB of memory onboard. It randomly used to biatch with a similar error on reformatting with Windows XP. I did try all the usual memory reduction/swap, GFX card swap, etc but little ever worked.

The answer was simple. I tend to turn off at the BIOS level all the 'irrelevant' options such as serial ports, parallel support, etc. For some reason, Windows XP had a right issue with this and by just enabling BIOS defaults, I could get the reinstall done without any BSODs. Once XP was on with all the service packs and drivers, I'd go back into BIOS and disable all the crap again.

Worked a treat for me.

D.

 

[rich-6]

i had an error like that recently when trying to do a fresh install on my system,

I had to go into BIOS as you would normally set it to boot from disk. Then change the Hard disk to IDE, Rebooted it and it let me go through the setup screens, create a new partition and reformat it, Jobs a good un now

Only thing i cant do is get XP SP3 on, Keeps crashing windows :s Known fault apparantly on mine i googled it, So just run SP2 and have that up to date