New
#1
Windows cannot install on this computer's hardware issue installing W7
My brother asked me to take a look at his computer because he was having issues with it. Well, he took it upon himself to fix the issues and corrupted the boot file. I couldn't fix the issue, so I saved whatever he wanted and did a fresh install of Windows 7 64 Ultimate. I get to the "completing instillation" phase and get this message:
"Windows cannot install on this computer's hardware issue"
I went to the Microsoft site and it told me to download a driver, downloaded the driver and that didn't help. Then I tried the other method of changing the settings in BIOS from RAID to AHCI and IDE. Still nothing.
I also get a blue screen saying that it has to do a memory dump, so my next plan was to take out 4 gigs of memory and leave the other 4 gigs.
The computer does not have old hardware. (HP Pavilion Elite m9500t Desktop PC Product Specifications and Configurable Options HP Pavilion Elite m9500t CTO Desktop PC - HP Customer Care (United States - English))
I'm going to see if I can get Ubuntu installed on the machine.
Any ideas?