Laptop Blue Screens when Installing XP

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Laptop Blue Screens when Installing XP

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I cannot for the life of me figure out why the hell this Thinkpad T20 Blue Screens EVERY TIME I try to install XP.

As soon as I enter the CD Key, I then hit next, BAM Blue screen.

I googled the Blue Screen error which was Page_Fault_in_NonPaged_Area, and from what I found, it was either a RAM, or HDD problem.

Ran Memtest86 for 3 hours last night and everything was perfectly fine, Passed 3 times with not a single error, ok RAM was then ruled out, so I try 3 different laptop drives, they all formatted fine, and with all 3 different Hard Drives, it blue screens, so it isn't the Hard drive.

Then on the blue screen, it says something about Hard Drive Shadowing or something like that, I look for it to disable it in the Bios, but nothing even related to shadowing can be found in the Bios.

So then I thought maybe a Bios Upgrade was needed to support XP, look up the bios update, and the Bios that supports XP was a way older Bios than what was already on the laptop.

I am at the end of my rope, I am so close to just telling my mom her laptop is dead. So can anybody help? I am still gonna try a Bios upgrade since the bios still isn't the latest, but if that does work what would you guys think.
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Post by Joes2Silly »

Try downloading Darik's Boot n Nuke and trying formatting the hard drive using it :wink:
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Post by Jongamer »

Joes2Silly wrote:Try downloading Darik's Boot n Nuke and trying formatting the hard drive using it :wink:
K I will try that after I try flashing the bios, but I seriously doubt it is gonna do anything.

Can't do that till tomorrow though, Left the laptop in the IT Lab at school.

EDIT: Welp, school got canceled for Friday, so can try till monday.
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Post by Jongamer »

Woops, made a big typo in my first post, I accidentally said I formatted 3 different laptops. I meant I Formatted 3 different Laptop drives.
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