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Today I feel ignorant and frustrated
I just got a Dell XPS710 off of E-bay and the seller mistakenly loaded it with a fresh load of Vista. OK appologies and such but all I really want is a fresh load of XP. The seller sent along the reload XP disk from Dell. So here I am thinking this ought to be straight forward even for me. So I take out the Vista based WD500gb "C" drive and replace it with a brand new formated WD 1000gb drive.
I then pop in the XP CD and boot the computer. Bingo it takes about a minute to load in a whole bunch of drivers and then the dreaded Blue Screen of death followed by the mysterious gobbledigook of what MS calls a stop error 0x0000007b, 0x0000024, 0x00000000, 0x00000000
So I calls in my more experienced computer guru and after a day of trial and error and reading web sites she (my daughter) still can't reload XP without that blue screen (even tried an XP clean formated drive from one of my other XPS710 machines.
This has got to be a simple problem with a simple soultion doesn't it
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