Blue Screen of Death whenever i try and format my pc.

[meermiester]

Ive been having major problems with my PC so i reformmated my hdd. All goes well until windows setup boots up from my hdd for the first time after setup files have been copied - blue screen of death. I restarted my PC, same thing. So i figured it was just a one off setup glitch and tried to reformatted it again. Now when either i press 'R' for system recovery or after i accept the liscensing agreement in windows setup i get: PFN_LIST_CORRUPT. Any help will be EXTREMELY appreciated!

*System Spec: Athlon64 3200+ Venice, LanParty Ultra-D, 512mb PC333, Maxtor SATA 160GB HDD, Radion X700Pro 256mb

 

[IronDuke]

Are you using the latest SATA drivers on the floppy you used at F6?

 

[meermiester]

just tried that, still the same blue screen appearing when i press 'r' or install windows. would it help if i flash my bios? maybe its a compatability issue?

 

[IronDuke]

It is a tricky one. Here's Micro$oft$ take on it

 

[meermiester]

Looks like ive gotta get myself down to pcworld tommoro morn and get some new RAM... the ddr I have are a bit old.

 

[IronDuke]

That is a possibility, but not certain. Can you run memtest even overnight. If that goes 7 passes without a number of failures it would make the ram look less guilty.

 

[meermiester]

oK I ran memtest overnight, 17passes and no errors. If its not the RAM what is it?

 

[meermiester]

ive updated my bios. no change. i swapped my SATA hdd with a IDE 40gig one and the same problem occurs. So its not my RAM or my HDD.

 

[IronDuke]

Like I said it is tricky. It would appear to be a driver problem as I understand it. So you may have some success it you take out anything that is not absolutely necessary and try again. This will still be a problem if it is the SATA driver. Did you cahck for compatability?

 

[meermiester]

my maxtor 6l160m0 is on the combatability list, so's my HIS X700 256 graphics. I cant find my mobo anywhere on there. By the way the stop error is: 0x0000004e (0x0000008f, 0x00009be4, 0x00009bdc, 0x00000000)

 

[meermiester]

ive fixed it, i removed one of my 256mb sticks of RAM and it works. why do u think it didnt show up in memtest?

 

[IronDuke]

Could say as I don't know about these things. Guess would be that memtest test certain parameters and your problem was out side these. How's that for a non answer . You might get a result from memtest86+, this may be more thorough.