Re: Windows 7 upgrade Blue Screens my laptop. Maybe because of ATI?

On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:47:38 +0530, LilBueno wrote:

> Laptop's a Gateway NV52 with Vista Home Premium 64-bit. I'm upgrading to
> Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. I ran the Upgrade Advisor and it told me
> to uninstall ATI Catalyst Install Manager, which I did.
>
> I put in the upgrade disk, and after Phase 1 (3 total phases), it had to
> restart to begin Phase 2. After the Gateway logo screen, it blue
> screened on me. The error code was 0x7b. It didn't even do the whole
> mini dump thing it usually does when it blue screens. It never even
> makes it to the Welcome scene (where the green bar is loading on the
> black screen, not the Vista welcome scene)
>
> It happens again when I restart it. The only way to fix it is to go back
> to a restore point BEFORE I deleted ATI in which case I'm in the same
> situation where it tells me to uninstall it before updating. Could ATI
> be the problem?

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