Mac gets blue screen while installing Windows 7 with bootcamp

I had a problem while trying to install Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit on my MacBook mid-2010.  When i would create the partition using bootcamp assistant and my computer restarted into the install process, i would get a blue screen.  The blue screen would occur after my computer restarted and was completing the installation.  If I try to reboot the machine, it gives me an error "The computer restarted unexpectedly or encountered an unexpected error.  Windows installation cannot proceed.  To install Windows, click ok to restart the computer, and then restart the installation."  I first tried this on yosemite, but when it was not working I tried wiping the hard drive and i installed mavericks.  I got the same problem, so it does not have to do with the OS.  I have installed Windows 7 32-bit on this computer before.  But i still get the same error with 32-bit also.  I know that this computer supports windows 7 and 64-bit too.  If anyone know why this might be happening and how i can fix it, please let me know.  Thank you. 

It is good to see that it is indeed a USB2.
The support software on the USB is used in the Pre-boot environment setup and provides drivers for Apple specific hardware, GPU, BT, Mouse, etc. You can verify that by looking at the USB contents. The DVD contains generic drivers when hardware is not recognized as defaults to use. Apple does enough 'secret sauce' to make them different. The following does not explicitly state the USB2 need when using the DVD Installer and mentions W8 (not W7).
From Boot Camp: Creating an ISO image from a Windows installation DVD - Apple Support
Insert a blank USB 2 flash drive that is a least 16GB in size into a USB port on the computer. Boot Camp Assistant uses this drive to store the Windows 8 install media and support drivers during installation of Windows.
Note: This flash drive needs to be formatted for the FAT32 file system and must use the Master Boot Record partitioning scheme. Use Disk Utility to check the format of the flash drive before proceeding, and partition or erase the flash drive if necessary.
I suspect the GPU is not getting the correct driver and the Installer fails. The Generic VGA should work. From the OS X side, can you see files in your BC volume? If yes, can you look for logs in the BC volume at the following locations.
./Windows/Inf/setupapi.dev.log
./Windows/Inf/setupapi.offline.log
./Windows/Inf/setupapi.setup.log
./Windows/Logs/SetupCleanupTask/setupact.log
./Windows/Logs/SetupCleanupTask/setuperr.log
./Windows/Panther/FastCleanup/setupact.log
./Windows/Panther/FastCleanup/setuperr.log
./Windows/Panther/setupact.log
./Windows/Panther/setuperr.log
./Windows/Panther/UnattendGC/setupact.log
./Windows/Panther/UnattendGC/setuperr.log
./Windows/setupact.log
./Windows/setuperr.log
./Windows/System32/Sysprep/Panther/IE/setupact.log
./Windows/System32/Sysprep/Panther/IE/setuperr.log

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