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Windows 7 BSOD problem

Freshgeardude

Freshgeardude

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Ok, so I helped my friend who had Vista Ultimate on his laptop. I put on Windows 7 RC build 7100 downloaded directly from microsoft.

The laptop was originally 32 bit vista home premium and it went to vista ultimate 64 bit edition, so I put on win 7 64 bit.


It starts to install drivers for the chipset and it crashes. I go into safe mode, twice, and I get BSODs. before I call it fucked up and redid it, I tried going into regular boot up and it worked, so I tried to install the drivers again. same problem, 2 BSODs went back to normal, and it worked fine. it was weird.

I tried to fix it and got a BSOD, so I tried a system restore.

I finally got the chipset to work fine. no BSOD from that. So now I need to activate his copy. As soon as it attempts to activate, BSOD. Safe mode always BSODs when I try from there. I cant even do the " activate by phone" because itr crashes right there.

I was wondering, shy of wiping this comp and redoing it, is there anything that I can do?

Edit: forgot to tell what laptop this is. It is a Toshiba Satellite L505-S5971
 
sometimes, it depends on what hardware you have and programs. Sometimes they go well sometimes not. Most often if you do run into trouble. Just fresh install the original OS you have then upgrade off a fresh install.
 
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