- Jul 31, 2006
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Ok, so I helped my friend who had Vista Ultimate on his laptop. I put on Windows 7 RC build 7100 downloaded directly from microsoft.
The laptop was originally 32 bit vista home premium and it went to vista ultimate 64 bit edition, so I put on win 7 64 bit.
It starts to install drivers for the chipset and it crashes. I go into safe mode, twice, and I get BSODs. before I call it fucked up and redid it, I tried going into regular boot up and it worked, so I tried to install the drivers again. same problem, 2 BSODs went back to normal, and it worked fine. it was weird.
I tried to fix it and got a BSOD, so I tried a system restore.
I finally got the chipset to work fine. no BSOD from that. So now I need to activate his copy. As soon as it attempts to activate, BSOD. Safe mode always BSODs when I try from there. I cant even do the " activate by phone" because itr crashes right there.
I was wondering, shy of wiping this comp and redoing it, is there anything that I can do?
Edit: forgot to tell what laptop this is. It is a Toshiba Satellite L505-S5971
The laptop was originally 32 bit vista home premium and it went to vista ultimate 64 bit edition, so I put on win 7 64 bit.
It starts to install drivers for the chipset and it crashes. I go into safe mode, twice, and I get BSODs. before I call it fucked up and redid it, I tried going into regular boot up and it worked, so I tried to install the drivers again. same problem, 2 BSODs went back to normal, and it worked fine. it was weird.
I tried to fix it and got a BSOD, so I tried a system restore.
I finally got the chipset to work fine. no BSOD from that. So now I need to activate his copy. As soon as it attempts to activate, BSOD. Safe mode always BSODs when I try from there. I cant even do the " activate by phone" because itr crashes right there.
I was wondering, shy of wiping this comp and redoing it, is there anything that I can do?
Edit: forgot to tell what laptop this is. It is a Toshiba Satellite L505-S5971