When installing Windows XP, the blue screen is a verdict or a little trouble?

When you observe the blue screen when installing Windows XP, it is recommended that you do not try again, but analyze what is happening. It is necessary to remember what messages preceded its appearance (sometimes they are displayed, but users-beginners press "Ok" without even reading). In general, when you see a blue screen when installing Windows, you should not panic. If the computer turns on, and the operating system installation starts, then there is a high probability that the cause of the abnormal behavior can be eliminated. And without significant financial costs that could be required if the computer did not turn on at all.

The blue "death screen" of Windows XP (the bourgeois name-abbreviation - BSOD) is known to every user of operating systems from Microsoft. An unusual name hides a completely predictable behavior of the installer, who discovered an unrecoverable software or hardware error. This is often the case when you install Windows XP. The blue screen at this stage has already become a familiar phenomenon. Interestingly, it is not unique to old configurations. Even when installing a Windows XP blue screen, even the owner of the most advanced multi-core "combine" can, despite the fact that all components separately work without failures.

In the global network, you can find impressive instructions to identify the causes of this behavior of the operating system. We in this article have collected only those of them that occur most often.

So, one of the most common reasons for which when you install Windows XP, the blue screen is an incorrectly configured mode of the disk subsystem. Before you start the installation, it is necessary to go into the BIOS of the motherboard (often pressing the "Del" button immediately after turning on the computer). Then in one of the menu items find the choice of mode - SATA (AHCI) or IDE (Native) and set the second one.

We do not specify a path to the parameter, since its location depends on the BIOS version and the company that collects the motherboards under its name. You should slowly scan all the sections - it must be. After that, you need to exit the settings while saving the changes and try again to install the system. The IDE mode is fully supported by Windows XP, but there is no AHCI. An exception is an assembly of the operating system with integrated drivers that can work with any configuration. Important: the system installed and running in the IDE will report a problem - the same blue screen if it is transferred to the AHCI without preliminary program preparation. The converse is also true.

The next reason is the hardware malfunction in the memory module. It happens that the computer seems to be working, but the failure goes exactly during installation. Solution: it is necessary to extract the memory from the motherboard connector in turn and try with the remaining modules. So you can identify the damaged one.

Sometimes the system can not be installed due to the appearance of an unreadable sector on the hard disk. It is necessary to check it for errors. For example, using the program Check Disc.

Finally, a blue screen may appear due to a hardware / software conflict. So, if from the moment of the last successful installation new components were connected, then they must be removed and the computer operability checked.