Installed new rig, windows won't boot.

[GC1983]

STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF7C46528, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000

Is the error message i'm receiving.

Rig Specs: Asus P5W-DH mobo

2x 1G GEIL DDR2 4-4-4-12 800mhz memory.

320G IDE Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm HDD.

OS: XP Professional SP2

I won't get into any other specs as i don't think that they're the cause.

Bios boots up fine, my XP start up screen loads for 2 seconds and then BANG! Blue screen error telling me I have some form of HDD fault due to new hardware. The above code is the technical reference attached to it.

I'm thinking the ram may be uncompatible although it's still being read by bios. It's not on the Vendor table that comes with the motherboard user guide, but in saying that, I'll still need to check the updated Vendor on the asus page.


Guys and girls, I spent X amount of hours putting this rig together and have now hit a brick wall.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

[JackNSally]

If your bios has this setting, set the sata to ide mode or emulation, something along those lines. Let us know how that worked out.

[GC1983]

Thanks for the speedy reply, but i've already tried that.

I found this on the Microsoft site.

SYMPTOMS
After you move the Microsoft Windows XP system (boot) disk to a backup computer, you may receive the following Stop error when you try to start the Windows XP-based backup computer:
STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF741B84C,0xC0000034,0x00000000,0x00000000)
INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE

This error may occur if the registry entries and the drivers for the mass storage controller hardware in the backup computer are not installed in Windows XP.

For integrated device electronics (IDE) controllers, there are several different chip sets available, such as Intel, VIA, and Promise. Each chip set has a different Plug-n-Play identifier (PnP-ID).

The PnP-ID information of mass storage controllers for the backup computer must be in the registry before startup so that Windows XP can initialize the correct drivers.



To resolve this error, use the same hardware for the backup computer: • Replace the problem hardware components in the backup computer with components of the same manufacturer, make, and model as the motherboard in the computer that you are backing up.
• If the system disk is a SCSI disk, use the same make and model of SCSI controller in the new computer.

• If the system disk is an IDE disk, use the same kind of motherboard in the new computer, a motherboard that has the same kind of IDE chip set and the same PnP-ID as the motherboard in the computer that you are backing up.
For SCSI-based system disks, you can prime the registry and make sure that the drivers that you want are in place by installing the SCSI controller that is used by the backup computer before you transfer the system disk contents. Windows XP PnP detects the controller, sets up critical registry entries, and copies the appropriate driver.

After you see the SCSI controller in Device Manager, you can remove the alternate controller. If you have to move the system disk to another computer that has the same make and model of SCSI controller in the future, Windows XP will start successfully because Windows XP has already used that controller one time and has retained the correct configuration information.


Once again, i'm open to all suggestions before I start losing my hair over this!

[JackNSally]

Hmm, try 1 stick of memory in different slots, if it still does it, try the other stick in different slots, if it still does it then... take out the cd and see if it is scratched?

[JackNSally]

Oh and as a last resort...
Do you have a floppy drive? Make a bootable floppy, boot off of that, go to your cd-rom, go to the i386 directory and type in winnt.

[GC1983]

I've already tried the ram swap with no success.

Regarding the CD, Sorry, I should've elaborated.

The drive already has an installation of XP installed on it.

Now one might say, format the drive, that's your problem.

That is going to be my last option as from what i've read thus far, it hasn't solved the problem for anyone.

Thanks again.

[JackNSally]

I've had that problem before with drives that had windows installed on it, no matter what I did it would throw out errors.
Formatted and it installed perfectly fine. Sorry...:bang head

[dudleycpa]

Do you have a copy of WinXP on CD so that you may use the recovery console?

[GC1983]

I'll be trying that as soon as I finish work.

I thought i'd soak up all the help i could get whilst I'm at work as it's going to be a pain hooking up my backup computer to get the information I need from the internet.

From what i've read though, it seems that there's a key I should add to the windows registry to enable the drive to be read by windows.

So I may run my backup PC, make up the key entry and see how that goes.

I'll be sure to keep everyone informed on my progress.

Once again, thanks a bunch.

[dudleycpa]

Thanks for keeping us informed.

[bchur83]

Let me get this straight, you built a new system, and used the Windows install from the previous system? If so, you need to reinstall Windows, or at the very least do a repair install (which may or may not work). The problem you are running into is that you have an install from another board, and since you moved to the new system, it has no idea what drivers to use.

[GC1983]

As previously stated, I'll try the repair as soon as I finish work.

Regarding drive formatting, from what i've read ( I know, don't believe everything you read) it hasn't helped anyone thus far.

Also I have some rather important files (oblivion save files :) ) on that drive so I may have to copy them onto a CD/External HDD before I venture down that Path.

[GC1983]

Update on problem: Tried to repair drive, still no success.

Didn't want to format drive so I simply installed windows XP home on top of XP professional.

Computer now loads fine running under XP home.

I'll now transfer the files I need onto my external drive and format the HDD.

I don't like the idea of having 2 os's running on the same partiton.

Thanks again guys!

love ya work!