I apparently picked up a virus or trojan from a malicious website I am guessing. My computer kept having random errors, shutting itself off numerous times in a row, closing random apps that were running, etc... yeah I was due for a reformat so I thought no big deal. I'll wipe and spend the next 2 days reinstalling crap. I have done this to my box ( a 4 yr old HP media center) probably 8 times now- the destructive recovery. This time it did not work. I got the blue screen w/ error 0x0000007B in the middle of the reformat, so I had no OS at that point. The partition would not load the recovery and I even have the XP Media Center discs which failed as well. I asked around and the best solution was try a new hard drive. I have upgraded quite a bit in my box, so why not I thought. The HP came stock w/ a Seagate 160gig hd. I got a Seagate 250 to replace it. As I went to hook it back up the new drive was IDE instead of the ATA which the old drive was hooked up with. So... I go and spend money for the IDE PCI adapter. Now everything is hooked up, and I still am getting that blue screen error while it attempts to reformat. This is driving me nuts!! My wife is rather happy because I am a big gamer and this kinda stuff has made me afk for 3 weeks now. I also asked around if all this new added hardware should be removed and the box put back to factory in order to use the 4 yr old OS I was loading and was told it should not matter. I have upgraded the following:
Nvidia 7950gt
400w PSU
2.5gig ram
If anyone could help plz!! Thanks for your time reading this