Installing new operating system on hp laptop

[shaarj22]

Hello,I have blue screen of death on my Hp pavillion 9310us64xdual. Can I just Install a new operating system, such as windows 7?

 

[WR2]

Hello shaarj22;
You should investigate the reason for the BSOD.
If it's caused by a hardware failure a new OS installation will not be successful.

 

[WR2]

Check and see if you can start your system with a bootable Rescue CD.
Bart's PE live CD: http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
AVG Rescue CD: http://www.avg.com/us-en/226386
SystemRescueCD: http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page

 

[Prescott_666]

Do you already have the Windows 7 DVD, or will you have to go out and buy it? There is a Windows 7 Enterprise 90-Trial version that you can download for free from Microsoft. Do you have a spare hard drive for your laptop? If you do, you can swap your current hard drive with the spare, and try it out.

In addition to whether you have a hardware problem, you need to be able to find Windows 7 drivers for all the hardware devices in the laptop. Sometimes that's not possible, but if you install the evaluation version of Windows 7, and you can't find all the drivers, you just put the original hard drive back in the laptop, and your back where you started.