Blue screen of death when installing RC on a X60t

[karlth]

Downloaded the ISO for Windows 7 RC and after burning it to a DVD (tried mounting the ISO as well) it blue screens on me after 2-3 seconds when "Setup is copying temporary files"

Windows update says that everything is updated.

The error code returned is 0x0000008e

Any ideas? (I'm running out of time here as the Beta will expire in 7 hours! )

[K0LO]

Ideas:

1. Any chance the download was corrupted? Check its MD5 sum against posted values.
2. That stop error code is associated with bad RAM with WinXP. I'm not sure what it means in Win7, but you could check your RAM by running Memtest86+

[karlth]

1. Checksum is ok.
2. Memory diagnostics reports everything is ok.

I have been running Windows 7 Beta (7000) without any problems for months now, and this pops up.

I'm at loss here.

[K0LO]

It will sometimes take many hours for a bad RAM cell to show up during a memory test, or it takes a particular pattern of data to make it show up. Since the bluescreen error pops up fairly quickly for you during the install, try removing one of your RAM modules (if you have more than one) and then run the installer again using one or the other of the modules. If it is a RAM problem, this may isolate it.

The reason that I keep coming back to a RAM issue is that the installer, at the point you are describing, is usually busy loading up RAM with some files before it copies over the large image file, which goes to disk. Other than that, I'm also at a loss.