hey guys, new guy here... I have a problem installing win 7 with XP (dual booting)...it installs fine until the very last minute of finalizing installation a BSOD comes out with error 0x0000009C. I have 3 partitions on the HDD that i plan to install win 7. partition 1 - XP Pro SP3, partition 2 - Win 7, partition 3 - empty.( but plan to boot Ubuntu) I have tried installing it almost 10 times. I googled 0x0000009c & found something regarding memory module not seated properly on slot..so i "unplugged" the modules & placed them firmly on, killed all of my HDD fans, exhaust fans in my tower casing, unplugged my EMU soundcard as well & did a format & installed win 7 but to no luck... I have installed win 7 before but on a different HDD on my pc & i had no such problems..until i tried dual booting win 7 with XP.(XP installed 1st) my current settings - Motherboard : ASUS P5RD1-VM CPU : Pentium D 3ghz Memory : DDR 2gb PCIE : Nvidia Gigabyte GTX250 Soundcard : EMU 0404 Really need help on this...
Try playing with some mem settings in bios. Could be a wrong setting in bios. Remapping Timings disable PEG ...
i did try & load default BIOS still no go. Settings regarding Timings are all defaults..is PEG settings for grphic card? Forgot to mention that my primary OS, Win XP pro SP3 is running perfectly on partition 1...
Did you try installing win7 on a seperate drive ? Could be worth a shot. Sounds like an hardware issue, but only when dualbooting. BCD corrupting or something ? EDIT : the 0x000009c error doesn't always mean faulty mem. could also be that a faulty value gets stored in mem, and cause it to crash. So it can still be software causing the hardware failure. I'm thinking bootloader in some freaky way.
I'd say use a seperate drive. It's because the different ways that xp and win7 handle their boot. Xp uses boot.ini, win7 uses the new BCD. Xp has flagged it's partition as boot. But win7 won't recognise the boot. During install win7 tends to put boot files on another partition , as I have notived several times. I think they end up in the flagged xp partition and install fails.
nope, im installing x86.hmm, gonna try installing win 7 1st then install win xp pro..then change boot with BCD..
Set the ram timings specifially to whats on to ram mate. I had issues where windows 7 (Vista and xp where fine) Would blue screen when doing a cold boot ( The machine being off over night). Turned out the ram timings where at fault and now its will boot from cold requardless of temp Worth a try mate cheers
Thanx bro, but no luck. Still get the BSOD 0x0000009C.. Tried it on a different HDD (sata 2), has the same problem. Im suspecting the cause of the whole BSOD thing would be SATA related. Gonna try on one of my PATA HDD.. Any help or suggestions would really be appreciated. Thanx!
Do NOT use EasyBCD 1.7 with win7. It is NOT compatible with win7's bootloader !!! You HAVE to use 2.0 ! Issues will arrise with 100% certainty if you don't use the latest 2.0. Just so you know. You have been warned, dude. Gen555
you should get hold of HyperOS 2009 TE , I have XP (32bit) Vista (32bit) 2 intallations and Windows 7 in both 32and 64 bit. in Ultimate homepremium and home basicN all on the same (raided) PC. pure simplicity and faultless operation. and have not had to touch a single boot file to do it . give it a go.
So how many os'es you multibooting then ? 6 ?? Why ?? EDIT : In case of a 6 or 7 fold multiboot, using easybcd would get a lttle more complicated, as manual moderation would be neccesary. But for the experienced users it would still work though. And for a simple dualboot EasyBCD is ideal. You will actually learn something too when using it.