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    xps m1330 Blue Screen Problem Help!

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by xt3rmin8, Mar 25, 2008.

  1. xt3rmin8

    xt3rmin8 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I just got my xps yesterday and everything was fine until today I clicked on the media direct button when my computer was off and it booted up then it gave me this blue screen. Tells me to restart it and go into safe mode but when i do it says to load Windows XP OS and and it just gives me another blue screen again! what should i do? :(


    http://tinyurl.com/3dgl28 first blue screen

    http://tinyurl.com/3d2ykowhen i try going into safe mode

    http://tinyurl.com/2wqce9 second error

    :(
     
    xt3rmin8, Mar 25, 2008
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  2. Lithus

    Lithus NBR Janitor

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    Time to backup and Restore/Format.
     
    Lithus, Mar 25, 2008
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  3. xt3rmin8

    xt3rmin8 Notebook Enthusiast

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    wow :( and i had just finished installing all the updates i even dumped all my music in the hard drive :cry:
     
    xt3rmin8, Mar 25, 2008
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    own3d Notebook Evangelist

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    Bugger! I have the exact same blue screens of death. It all started recently when I decided to do a complete wipe of Vista. So I got my MD 3.5 disc and allocated partitions and then went on to install vista. So all was fine.. But then one day I pressed the media direct button , ( Which I hadn't installed - ( to finish installing you have to boot vista and put in the MD 3.5 disc and then run it ) ) and it came up with your first BSOD. And all the others seem to follow.

    Any help really would Help!
     
    own3d, Apr 7, 2008
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  5. chelet

    chelet Notebook Deity

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    If Media Direct isn't installed properly, the Media Direct button becomes a self-destruct button (at least if the system is off). You have to "prepare" the hard drive using the Media Direct CD before installing XP or Vista. Then you install your operating system. Then you go back to the Media Direct CD to install it within Windows.

    Check the Dell Vista Laptop Reformat and Bloatware removal guide
    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=157838
     
    chelet, Apr 7, 2008
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