Dell Dimension 9100: Fix BlueScreen When Installing XP
Just bought Dell Dimension 9100 ones get this laptop comes with no operating system installed. To make it works then he’s try to install Windows XP Pro retail version on it. During install he’s getting the error message which commonly appears before copying any files to the hard disk. That error said:
A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to protect your system.
STOP : 0×0000007E (0xC0000005, 0xF786B0BF, 0xF7CB7208, 0xF7CB6F08)
pci.sys – Address F786B0BF base at F7864000, DateStamp 3b7d855c
When using ‘Hard Drive Diagnostics’ looks like the hard drive cannot be found:
Drive 0: WDC WD……………. – PASS
Drive 1: No Device
Drive 2: No Device
Drive 3: No Device
Drive 4: TSSTcorpDVD-ROM TS-H352C – Diagnostics not supported
Drive 5: SONY CD-RW CRX217E – Diagnostics not supported
Seems like the problem of failed installation XP in Dell Dimension 9100 then showed an error message like above is happened because of incorrectly reformat Dell machine before install the XP OS. Here you require using a Windows XP disk with SP 2 for it.
About the hard drive cannot be found like shown at ‘Hard Drive Diagnostics’ you can try this solution:
Reboot the computer
Press F2 to enter setup
Select drives and make sure “Drive 0: SATA-0″ drive is set to “ON”
Go to “SATA Operation”
Change the setting to “Combination” which it probably set to “RAID
Autodetect / AHCI”
Finally, make sure the boot sequence in BIOS is set to CD ROM before hard drive. Now you should have no problems in installing XP on your machine with Windows XP SP2 disk.
November 9th, 2009 18:13
Thanx for the help. Really appreciate your help. I was screwed for last two nights. I tried nlite custom window installer for SATA drivers and many more things failed to work. nothing works. So called Guru`s geeks couldn`t make the way out this time.Only few setting make my day. Keep this good help up.