[ale] OT: BSOD

[Jim Kinney]

Depends on the chipset. If it's one that has all the USB and sata and ide
controllers, then that won't work either.

If it has a split controller, sata/usb on one and ide/floppy on another,
then booting from a ide optical sounds promising.

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 12:09 PM, William Fragakis <william at fragakis.com>wrote:

> In that case, might the system boot the Windows CD from an external
> cd/dvd drive?
>
> wf
>
> On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 11:38 -0400, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> > On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 08:29 -0700, C Hendry wrote:
> > > What puzzles me is that if the problem is the HD or what is on or not
> > > on the HD,
> > >
> > > then why when booting from a Windows CD, do I get a BSOD even when I
> > > totally unplug the HD from the system (both the Power and Data
> > > cable)?
> >
> > Sounds like you need to use the F6 additional driver option on the
> > Windows installer CD so that it can find the CD-ROM.  You must have a
> > system that is highly unique, or uses SATA for the CD/DVD drive or
> > something---regardless, Windows doesn't have a driver for it, and it
> > sounds to me like you need a driver floppy for the CD.
> >
> >       --- Mike
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