BSOD during windows install.

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dmaownsyou

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While doing a fresh windows install on a new comp I get a bsod just after it says press f6 to install 3rd party raid driver, and it goes threw a couple more things, then at the bottom of the screen it says "starting windows" and thats when I get bsod. This is a brand new comp and it is a fresh (boot from cd) install.

I only had about 30 minutes to build this and try to get windows and such to install because I had to leave for work, so I didn't really have time to mess around with things. But my guess it is either I need to load sata drivers from floppy when it asks to install a 3rd party raid device (even though im not gonna have a raid setup), or I need to flash my bios to the most current one that dfi has.

Please any input would be great.

Thanks,
dma
 
I don't think it is a hardware problem as it was a pretested system from monarch but if it helps here it is:
Hitachi (HDT722516DLA380) Deskstar T7K250 160GB 7200 RPM SATAII
EVGA Geforce 7800 GTX 256mb
DFI Lan Party NForce4 SLI-DR
AMD ADA3700BNBOX Athlon 64 3700 939 Pin 90nm Boxed
OCZ OCZ4002048ELDCPE-K 2gb (2x1gb) EL DDR PC-3200 Platinum
PC P&C 470w silencer atx ps
Plextor dual layer SATA dvd burner.

I ran memtest and I received no errors aswell.

Thanks
dma
 
since it's an Nforce based chipset, you should not have to press F6 during install unless you are working in a RAID enviroment, Nforce detects SATA drives, other chipsets don't(that I am aware of) so people have to press F6 if they are using SATA drives to install SATA drivers for XP.

So I would try to reinstall XP without pressing F6 and see if that is causing the issue, since you ran memtest, if the above does not work you might have hard drive issues so you are going to need to download the diagnostic software from Hitachi and make a boot with it and see if the hd is the issue.
 
Yeh I have installed windows on too dozens of sata hd's and never had to press f6, but I read somewhere that you have to for sataII drives. I didn't have a floppy drive otherwise I would have checked, guess I'll pick one up on the way home and try it.
 
about the only other thing I can think of is whether or not that DFI board supports SATAII, or has SATAII ports.
 
Yeh it supports sataII drives, guess I'm gonna try flashing bios and hope that fixes the problem, as hitachi doesn't have drivers for their disks.
 
Didn't have time, but I highly doubt its harddrive because it didn't even get to the point where it was detecting harddrives, it was just initializing the install process.
 
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