blue screen after installing XP

[Mox]

The whole story: My friend caught VirtuMundo on his Hewlett Packard, and we were unable to remove it, so I saved his Documents on my HDD and formatted his HDD completely.
Now, I tried to install XP using his PC - I get to the 'Select partition to install WinXP into', I press up/down and it bluescreens saying something like "Paging_failure_in_non-paged_area".

So, I plug his HDD into my pc and XP installs just fine. I got the drivers needed from HPs website and saved em all into his HDD.

Plugging the HDD back to the original pc. Booting...
WinXP is Loading... Bluescreen flashes and it restarts itself.

Any idea what is causing this?

[creep]

Bad memory usually. Try reseating it and/or removing 1 stick at a time (assuming there's 2 sticks)

[Mox]

There were 4 sticks, I took 3 of 'em out and tried again - same problem.
Used the other sticks from my older pc, same thing.

Only stuff I havent tried yet is changing the mobo and CPU, and I doubt that's the problem.

I got the feeling it's got something to do with the Sata drivers

[obsidian]

Windows will ask you for device drivers that you need during bootup in the very first part of installing windows. You have to load your SATA drivers then, when it asks you.

Does he not have the original restore discs that came with his HP computer?

[axbaby]

note what the error code is when windows crashes to blue screen.

my error code recently was .. well i forget but i googled the error message and it pointed to bad ram. i tested one stick at a time till i was able to install Xp.

these were new sticks of ram btw .. shit happens.

[Mox]

Obsidian, I dont think he has 'em.
As for Sata drivers, I thought WinXP loads em right away? I was able to install my XP straight without having to fool around the Sata drivers.

axbaby - tested first his ramsticks, 4 of em, each of those one at the time.
Then we tried my old ram sticks the same way, still got that bsod.

about the bluescreen: something about Paging_failure_in_non-paged_area

[zolborg]

[quote="Mox"]Obsidian, I dont think he has 'em.
As for Sata drivers, I thought WinXP loads em right away? I was able to install my XP straight without having to fool around the Sata drivers.


This is determined by the motherboard, not the OS. All new motherboards have sata drivers built in, older ones [some] do not.

[AmIdYfReAk]

Zolburg, VERY Few Controllers will give the OS drivers, and none that i know of in the Consumer market.

Just ALOT of the Controllers out there ( Nforce 2 and newer ) have a Legisey mode of sorts, the O/S Will see them as a P-ATA/IDE Drive Vs a SATA.

This allows older o/s to detect and use the disk.