Blue screen(Surprise?)

[Siretu]

Okay, I like joking about Blue screens but now it has come back to hunt me.

Story:

I'm sitting on a computer with Ubuntu. I want to install a dual boot of Windows. This is complicated since Windows writes over the boot loader and then you have to fix everything and it all becomes a mess.

Anyway, I got one IDE disk with linux on. I also got a seperate IDE card sitting on the motherboard, giving me space for another two IDE drives(both 180gb)

I want to install Windows on one of the 180gb disks.

So, recount:
1 IDE disk(80gb, with linux on it)
2 IDE disks on seperate IDE card(180gb each)

I boot up with the installation cd in the cd-drive. It asks me if I want to boot from the cd, I say yes, it loads up stuff with a black background, it finishes loading stuff and goes black with just a "_" blinking. Then the blue screen of deaths appears.

Error is: 0x0000007B(0xF78DA524, 0x00000034,0x00000000,0x00000000)

* I tried inserting the cd in another computer and it works fine.
* I tried removing all disks but the disk I want to install windows on and also removing the IDE card. I then put the disk I keep in the normal IDE port.
* Messing around in the bios.

The disk I'm trying to install is formatted with ntfs and it got a couple of files on it, I'd rather not reformat it, but I will if needed.

I searched a lot on google and a lot of people with this problem got a problem with their SATA disk, but I'm using IDE! Something about a SATA controller.

I'd post my specs, but I don't know them myself. I can provide them if I get specific questions on what to look for.

Oh, and my bios is Ultra 133 TX2 if it helps.

 

[Neo1]

Mate you will probaly find that ur computers screwed.

i myself am stumped. if i had more info to tell u i would but i got no ideas.

good luck :thup::thup:

 

[Siretu]

Mate you will probaly find that ur computers screwed.

Well, something is obviously wrong, I'm just hoping I don't have to replace any hardware. That would be irritating since I'm quite broke and all the pieces in my computer is quite good.

 

[Siretu]

I've now tried without any disks at all and I get the same bluescreen error. The things I left in(that might be causing this) is:

* Graphic card
* Mother board
* Power source
* Processor
* CD-player

The graphic card should not be able to cause this(?)

The mother board could mess up with bios settings.

The power setting should have nothing to do with this.

I don't think the processor is causing this.

My friends told me to test another CD-player, but I don't think that's the cause since it is able to boot from the CD and load drivers from it.

I got 4x1gb RAM and I tried with only one of them, cycling through testing two of them in different slots, still the same problem, so I don't think the memory is the cause.

Edit: 500th post.

 

[UndeadDragon]

Bad copy of Linux?

 

[Siretu]

Linux is working great and is not causing this. One of the first things I tried was disconnecting all disks but the one I wanted to install on.

I'm trying to get into the bios to see if it finds the disk. However, it boots too fast and I can't get into it, any ideas?

 

[codemonkey]

This isn't very prevalent, but in the future make sure to install windows first if you're planning on duel booting, trust me.

 

[Samael88]

Something about a SATA controller.

That quote is from a post in this thread.

You mentioned some people had problems with a SATA controller?

This is why:
SATA controller is a electroniccard that you put in a port inside your pc, usually in the PCI ports.
The reason why they have that problem is probably this:
Most of those you need to run the comp once before and install the drivers before the OS acknowledge the cards existence. Since you don't have the drivers with a fresh OS it will probably never work

I know this how?:
I used to have one of them, it was a pain in the a** to install and get it to work everytime I ran a "format C:\"

What it has to do with this:
The IDE controller thing you mentioned, it might be the same thing there, thus making it virtually impossible to run a operating system on a disk plugged into it

 

[Siretu]

This isn't very prevalent, but in the future make sure to install windows first if you're planning on duel booting, trust me.

I could if I was able to. However, dad forbid me to use Windows, so I've used Linux for a year now. He recently granted me access to Windows again, therefore the reason I'm fixing dual boot(Already tried virtual machine with no success)

That quote is from a post in this thread.

You mentioned some people had problems with a SATA controller?

This is why:
SATA controller is a electroniccard that you put in a port inside your pc, usually in the PCI ports.
The reason why they have that problem is probably this:
Most of those you need to run the comp once before and install the drivers before the OS acknowledge the cards existence. Since you don't have the drivers with a fresh OS it will probably never work

I know this how?:
I used to have one of them, it was a pain in the a** to install and get it to work everytime I ran a "format C:\"

What it has to do with this:
The IDE controller thing you mentioned, it might be the same thing there, thus making it virtually impossible to run a operating system on a disk plugged into it

Does that mean I can't install Windows on any IDE disk? Or on that particular? Or what?