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Error 7 with xp installation

Last answer on Jul 21, 2009 4:57:16 am BST jax, on Feb 12, 2009 7:50:13 am GMT 
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Hello,
I have a pentium 4 running windows xp pro. Windows had a serious error so i ran setup to reinstall windows. Then after the 1st restart,setup have me a error: file setupdd.sys could not be loaded. The error code is 7. Press any key to exit. But my keyboard's not working...i cant even choose any options on start up...please help. Thanx jax

Configuration: windows xp pro

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homer_simpson, on Feb 12, 2009 11:04:57 am GMT
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Hi,
format your hard disk and then reinstall windows on it.
try this link to get more inormation on about the error:
http://www.trap17.com/...

   
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HungarianHaiku, on Apr 7, 2009 1:01:35 pm BST
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I am currently working this same problem out with a laptop.
When I received the laptop, the HDD was fried.
I replaced the HDD, ran some scans to make sure the HDD was efficient, and began my install of Windows XP Professional. The laptop the HDD came out of had a copy of XP Pro on it when I began, but gave me BSOD before Windows began to load.
My first thought was, just some random error. I'll worry about it later. (error code 7)
I began doing research, and I strolled across archives of forums with the same problem, almost all of them saying, "check your RAM". I've never worked on laptops before, so I'm new to these problems. I'm not sure if this is a laptop only problem. Its not uncommon for the desktops I work on to have bad ram. I'm not sure what this person managed to do to fry both the HDD and the RAM at the same time, but here I am.
One forum I found linked me to www.memtest.org . They said make a boot disk from this website and run the tests to make sure all is in order. It will take some time, unless you receive errors immediately. Any errors will lead to a bad set of RAM.
I will be testing this problem when I get home and will keep you updated on my progress.

Feel free to e-mail me if you need more help.

   
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Guest, on Apr 25, 2009 5:40:01 pm BST
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I had the same problem. Bios update and memory replacement didn't help so i started taking everything apart and noticed that both DVDROM jumper setting were set to slave. As soon as i changed jumper to Cable Select on one of the DVD drives i was able to install XP.

I hope that helps.

Peace.

   
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Space670, on May 1, 2009 5:39:23 pm BST
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Had the same problem. Easely solved due to 2 DDR ram chips that would NOT talk together.
Try too remove one of them, it helpt me

   
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 Ajay Tyagi, on Jul 21, 2009 4:57:16 am BST
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I have PIII system... with 128 RAM . After some time i extended it's RAM to (128 + 512) = 740 MB by placing a 512 RAM along with 128 mb. Doing this i noticed some inprovemnet in speed. Suddenly before 2 weeks it starts to give a messgae of missing file, so i decide to format the same . But as i was having some important family pics in that particular partition , i remove the hard disk and mde it slave to another system. I picked important files and format the partition.
After this i set tghis hrd disk to the first PC . But could not install aafter repeatitive efforts due to this ERROR 7 ... i arranged another XP CD this time error was ERROR4 ... ... i could not understand what to do to resolve it....... suddently i remembered about a discussion board on net .. i searched and found the solution.

Finally i removed newly installed 512 RAM .. and installed XP very smoothly... Now my PC is OK .. Now i am planning to replace the RAM as it is in warranty period ... :-)

   
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