This is the follow up thread for a previous one I made as I go deeper into the problem that's been disabling me from finishing this laptop. --
So I had this problem yesterday with a laptop (Dell Latitude D630) I thought had the hard drive (Hitachi) damaged because after reformatting (clean install) when vista was loading it would display the blue screen quickly then shut off and restart it's boot sequence. Sometimes it would manage to turn on and work fine... sometimes not... I went ahead and replaced the hard drive with a new one (Seagate) and it's still doing the same thing. Prior to the reformat it was never doing this...
Some questions I've asked myself -
+Could it be that I'm installing a different version of Vista other then the one specified came with the laptop and this is causing some sort of bizarre conflict?
+Could the memory some how have gone bad?
+Am I missing some sort of driver?
Any ideas? Suggestion appreciated thank you!
UPDATES
+ Just ran the original dell diagnostics... found no problems with memory or any problems what so ever. Also ran the memory diagnostics from the Vista cd and found nothing also... I'm stumped =\
+ I tried to install xp on both hard drives, and the setup is not detecting neither hard drive. Do I need sata drivers?
So I had this problem yesterday with a laptop (Dell Latitude D630) I thought had the hard drive (Hitachi) damaged because after reformatting (clean install) when vista was loading it would display the blue screen quickly then shut off and restart it's boot sequence. Sometimes it would manage to turn on and work fine... sometimes not... I went ahead and replaced the hard drive with a new one (Seagate) and it's still doing the same thing. Prior to the reformat it was never doing this...
Some questions I've asked myself -
+Could it be that I'm installing a different version of Vista other then the one specified came with the laptop and this is causing some sort of bizarre conflict?
+Could the memory some how have gone bad?
+Am I missing some sort of driver?
Any ideas? Suggestion appreciated thank you!
UPDATES
+ Just ran the original dell diagnostics... found no problems with memory or any problems what so ever. Also ran the memory diagnostics from the Vista cd and found nothing also... I'm stumped =\
+ I tried to install xp on both hard drives, and the setup is not detecting neither hard drive. Do I need sata drivers?