Reformatting and running into an error??? Please help

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I got attacked my some hacker tonight and realize I should reformat ASAP.

Well... when I'm installing from my Windows XP disk the initial blue screen comes up saying it's loading all the stuff from the CD basically and then I get the error message as follows

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A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.

If this is the first time you've seen this Stop error screen, restart your computer. If this screen appears again, follow these steps:

Check to be sure you have adequate disk space. If a driver is identified in the Stop message, disable the driver or check with the manufacturer for driver updates. Try changing video adapters.

Check with your hardware vendor for any BIOS updates. Disable BIOS memory options such as caching or shadowing. If you need to use Safe Mode to remove or disable components, restart you computer, press F8 and select Advanced Startup Options, and then select Safe Mode.

Technical information:
*** STOP: 0x0000007E (0xC0000005, 0xF748E0BF, 0xF78DA208, 0xF78D9F08)

*** pci.sys - Address F748E0BF base at F7487000, DateStamp 3b7d855c

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I have no idea what would cause this. I'm overclocking my cpu some some BIOS settings are changed, could setting them back to defaults solve this issue? It doesn't really make sense to me. Please, I'd be grateful for any advice. Thanks.

(I'm not sure if this is the appropriate forum for this but I'm looking for help anywhere)
 
Your hardware isnt stable.
Restore to default speeds and make sure there is no dust build up.
 
I'm overclocking my cpu some some BIOS settings are changed, could setting them back to defaults solve this issue?
Click to expand...

Like Nenu, I vote you start there.
 
I changed the BIOS to default, still happened. I also tried replacing the ram which did not help.

Could my CPU be the culprit here? A couple months back I had to get a new mobo because of something similar. I don't think it's the mobo since it's so new and hope it's not the video card. Can a faulty CPU that's maybe been OC'd too much over the years do something like this?

I should note aside from this inability to reformat I'm not running into any problems. Although I noticed my CPU temps have been higher lately for some unknown reason. (I dusted my computer and made sure all my fans were working properly)
 
Sounds like the hd. Everytime that happens to a customers computer, I have had to replace the hd.
 
You know what, I wouldn't be surprised if it was. The problem that made me get a new mobo was I kept getting that NTLDR is missing message when trying to start up which I hear is something hdd related.

Why switching motherboards fixed it I don't know....Possibly a dumb question but can a shitty harddrive potentially affect other components?
 
Ok well it's not the harddrive. I put in a brand new one and the same error occurred after trying to boot from CD.

So what does that mean? I have suspicions it's CPU related. I had to replace my last motherboard due to some weird overclocking issues that prevented the computer from starting up. This really is a pain in the ass, is the only way to troubleshoot this to take out and put in components one by one until something works?
 
Maybe it's a bad install CD where the sector that contains the pci.sys file is corrupt. Also, check your HDD and CDROM data cables and make sure that one of them isn't loose. Even though you reset the BIOS to defaults, check and make sure that it's reading your RAM settings correctly. Sometimes they don't get detected properly, and it's actually running at higher timings than it can support. Also, disable any turbo/gaming type RAM settings that the motherboard might have.
 
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