Recent content by Sideshow Bob

Also, I forgot to mention that I installed a SATA DVD drive and in the BIOS, disabled the IDE. Didn't help. Gale

First off, thanks to both of you for all the help you have given me. The bad news, I still have the problem. I would like to try installation after XP is running but, like I said before, when I've tried it the Win 7 renames the windows file to windows.old and when I get a blue screen I can't...

Yes, the stop error is "Stop: c0000221 Unknown Hard Error \systemroot\system32\ntdll.dll". As I said in an earlier post, I tried installing Win 7 on a new hard drive with nothing externally attached except the WiFi adapter that is inter grated in my MB. I need connection to the internet so I can...

Yes, I'm using the factory disk and I have set BIOS boot order to first, dvd, second hard drive. Like I stated in my original message, I have tried it both ways, If I boot off the factory disk it loads severai files\drivers and then I get the "starting windows" screen, it pauses for several...

Thanks for the fast reply. I thought about the dvd player so I swapped it with another and am still having the problem. "f you burned Win 7 from an iso it will do this too.. unless it was burned slow.. like 4x" Sorry, I don't know what this means? I'm using the Microsoft Win 7 disk. One thing...

I've tried several times to install Windows 7 but I keep getting a blue screen. I've been running Windows XP Pro so I purchased the Win7 upgrade software. I know going from XP I need to do a clean install so I have backed up my data to an external drive as instructed. I've tried installing two...