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Win 7 x64 install bsod STOP: 0x0000007E
Hi. I bought a refurbished laptop MSI GT70 0ND and that was one of the worst desicions I have made. GPU was problematic and it was cheaply repaired even before I bought it. It died right after the warranty ended and there was nothing I could do. Anyways I took it to a service center and he told me GPU was dead. He removed the card and told me to use it with onboard GPU. It worked fine. But I did not find any use for it and I shelved it for around 2 years. I start it now and the audio seems dead. I only get crackling sound from speakers and headphones. But I am not much bothered about it as there are a lot of cheap fixes for that. Battery dead. But again not a big deal. As i want to use this laptop only to watch movies. But when I tried to fresh install win 7 x64, even before install completed bsod shows up STOP: 0x0000007E. Tried multiple runs. All same results. Not able to get past that. Although I was able to get win 8.1 and win 10 x64 running. I would like to stick to win 7 as MSI has stopped support for this model and some drivers do not work on later OS versions. Can someone help me get past this. I do not want to buy a new laptop.