Oh man that just HURTS.....This post directly follows the RAM one...
I thought surely I was in the clear... Had temporary working RAM and the Western Digital Raptor hard drive. Man I was gonna get me some Windows XP installed!
Popped in my Windows XP Pro (original) and was greeted with.... ^ What do you do?
I did what any nerd would do....
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
I tried different RAM, I tried different hard drives, I tried a different CD drive, I even ripped off my BSEL mod on the processor (...sniff... sob...). Still every time I would boot the computer would BSOD.
Well Google fixed my last problem... How about this one?
Sure enough! It turns out that in some cases the original edition of XP Pro will bluescreen because of the PCI-e slot this computer has. Fair enough, I have an XP Pro SP2 disc. I popped that in and in 20 minutes was greeted by Windows XP Pro SP2. We are ready for benching now!
I can't scream at BSOD's anymore--my roommate's losing too much sleep!
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