Problems? See this thread at archive.org.
I have an xps m1530 that I got almost 2 weeks ago, and the first thing I did was strip off Dell stuff by repartitioning and setting up dual boot w/ slackware and vista ultimate. I was installing my programs and got my data transferred over when after several reboots, it started blue screening on bootup (0x0000007b stop error) and safe mode hung on crcdisk.sys before blue screening. I had turned off restore points and couldn't think of what the problem might have been. I tried replacing msahci.sys and an intel matrix storage manager system file after reading it might have something to do with crcdisk.sys, but to no avail.
I finally formatted and reinstalled Vista Ultimate a second time. Setting everything back up and transferring over data again and it began to blue screen w/ the exact same stop error a second time, and safe mode once again hangs on loading crcdisk.sys. I had left restore points on this time and tried to go back (the last things I installed before rebooting the time before I started getting the bluescreen on boot were Office 2007, Office updates, Vista Shortcut Manager, Seagate Mirra software, Oceanlog [oceanic dive log software], and Logitech Harmony Remote software. I went to the restore point created before these items were installed and its still blue screening. I'm about to give up on Vista and/or the xps 1530 (possible crap hardware?) since there are some other things that trouble me with this notebook, especially compared to my 3 year old Toshiba.
I don't normally post with issues as I can typically find a solution on the googles, but any answers are eluding me. Any insight or help would be appreciated.
Michael
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Nope, BIOS is left w/ AHCI enabled the entire time. Office 2007 !compatible w/ Vista Ultimate?
Thanks for the suggestion, though.
Blue screen on 1530 bootup
Discussion in 'Dell' started by hydro12, Dec 31, 2007.
