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Windows XP installer does a blue screen of death on installation, with a STOP: 0×0000007B error. Installation fails due to the BSOD and is not recoverable.

In this particular instance, it means Windows cannot detect and load the correct harddisk controller driver.

Per http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=107364c :

Dell has a BIOS update sometime around or before 14 November 2007 which adds a “Legacy” mode to the BIOS’s SATA ports, then you can load the Dell SATA drivers (Intel ICH9) via floppy or a slipstreamed XP CD.

This error occurs in both Windows XP and Windows XP x64, even with SP2 slipstreamed.