Seemingly common prob: 0x0000007B error 1

[gbschwartz]

I just finished building a new computer. It has an AMD Athlon XP 2400+, 128MB DDR 2100 RAM, Maxtor Dimondmax 8 30GB HD, Gigabyte GA-7VAXP motherboard, and an Albatron GeForce 4 Ti 4200. I'm trying to install Windows XP Home+SP1, and every time I boot up with the CD, it gets past the BIOS, but when the installer tries to start windows, it get a BSOD w/ STOP:0x0000007B...etc. I tried all the fixed in the Win. 2000 forum, and none of those worked. (Fixes: turn UDMA off: can't find setting in BIOS, ACPI off: same as before. installing other drivers: only works with a floppy, my drivers are on a cd.) Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks

 

[SESaskDFC]

Howdy:

Have you tried turning off the anti-virus scanner in BIOS ??

Murray

 

[gbschwartz]

I don't think my BIOS supports that. It's an award (dual) BIOS

 

[SESaskDFC]

Howdy:

Have you checked?? Not a matter of supporting as it is built into BIOS !!!

Murray

 

[gbschwartz]

yup, I looked everywhere

 

[SESaskDFC]

It's there.. check this url..

http://www.sysopt.com/virwarn.html

Murray

 

[NucomMat]

This may sound stupid, but do you have the drive on the standard IDE controller or do you have it on the RAID/ATA 133 controller?
If you have it on the 133 controller to load, you will need to point it to the drivers for the controller at the begining of the os load (f6 to install 3rd party scsi driver), then it will be ok, or an easier way is to install the OS using the the primary IDE controller, let it find the controller onboard once the OS is running and then switching to the 133...if you are using it as a raid controller then you must do the first thing with the driver and the f6 command. Also, if you are using the raid function, and I am not sure if you are or not, you need to build the raid array before attempting to install the OS (usualy Ctrl-h during the RAID BIOS scan), and make sure tht in the main BIOS of the PC you have it set correctly to either ATA 133 controller or RAID controller and have the boot order set accordingly. The stop error you are getting is an unmountable boot device, and there are many ways you can get that with a raid board.

ok, I just noticed that you are only running 1 drive, so disregard all the stuff about the RAID, and just make sure you are on the primary IDE controller when loading, and it should correct the problem.

-Mat

 

[gbschwartz]

Thank you NucomMat! It works now. Thanks to everyone here too