Re: blue screen
- From: "R. C. White" <rc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:56:41 -0500
Hi, Ivor.
Win2K. Yes, I remember it well! Not favorably, but well.
By "not favorably", I'm referring to installation problems, not Win2K itself. I bought Win2K on the day it went on sale in February 2000. I was running all SCSI hard drives at the time on an Adaptec adapter card. I became VERY familiar with STOP 0x7B INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE! :>( And I just about learned the boilerplate language on that BSOD by heart. And I learned that all the pointy-fingers there were pointing in wrong directions.
Check for viruses on your computer.
It had NOTHING to do with viruses or other malware.
Remove any newly installed hard drives or hard drive controllers.
Check your hard drive to make sure it is properly configured and terminated.
Run chkdsk /f to check for hard drive corruption, and then restart your computer.
My problem had NOTHING to do with the hard drives, cabling or the adapter/drivers for them.
I ran chkdsk /f and everything was fine.
Nope! My drives were fine.
And I think the misleading BSOD language has not changed since I saw it so often in 2000. :>(
In sorting out some 10-year-old messages carried forward from OE to WLM, I ran across many from that era that brought back these unpleasant memories. Here's the text from just one of the posts that I made at that time (6/19/2000):
"Many of us have had the Stop 7B, Jon. For some of us - including me - the
problem was not with the boot device at all, but an IRQ conflict! In my
case, removing my Sound Blaster PCI card let W2K Pro Setup run to
completion. Then, when I put the card back, I got Stop 7B again. After
shuffling cards in various PCI slots I was finally able to get a combination
that works - except I still can't watch DVD movies. ;>( "
With your laptop and no hardware changes, Ivor, this might not be exactly your problem. I've never had a laptop and haven't bought a store-built computer since about 1989. I just buy the motherboard/CPU, etc., and assemble them myself. But I fought the "boot device" symptom for 7 weeks before a MSFT employee hinted that it might be an IRQ problem. Once I stopped focusing on the drive, my problem was identified almost immediately and solved in a few days. In my home-built rig, it took a lot of shuffling cards into different slots; I don't know how to deal with this in a laptop.
Bought a replacement hard drive and tried it with three different operating systems, each time I got the same result.
One other factor: It MIGHT be the hard drive, after all. My original STOP 0x7B errors were with installing Win2K on my SCSI hard drives, as I said. A few years later, I got my first SATA HDD (and have now migrated to all SATA, no more SCSI) and then the 7B error appeared again because the SATA drivers were not included on the original WinXP CD-ROM. Does your original Win2K CD-ROM have built-in drivers for your new drive?
When the 7B problem really WAS with the hard drives, it was because I needed to furnish drivers for my HDD during the Windows Setup - often referred to as the "F6 floppy-disk shuffle" - and many other users have run into this, too, when installing Windows onto an HDD using an interface newer than the Windows installation disk. In brief: First, get the proper drivers from the HDD maker and have them ready on a floppy disk! Then boot from the CD and start Setup; very early in the process, when invited by a text line on the bottom of the screen, press <F6>, then wait while it seems to have no effect and all those files keep loading; it will eventually halt with instructions on how to load those drivers from that floppy - then Setup will run to completion. (I haven't had to deal with a computer with no floppy disk drive; I don't know what to do in that case because most Setup files can't get them from USB or CD drives.)
Sorry for the rambling post, Ivor, and maybe none of this applies in your case. My GUESS that Win7's DVD-ROM will have all the drivers and other support files that you will need and that Win7 will install cleanly with no problems.
Please post back and let us know what you learn about this.
RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
rc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Microsoft Windows MVP
Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8089.0726) in Win7 Ultimate x64
"Ivor Williams" <ivor.williams@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:3CA4452C-F4ED-45D3-A2E6-430D148DE73F@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have a HP Pavillion dv5 laptop that came with XP Home edition installed. I upgraded to XP Pro, then Vista Ultimate 32 bit and then Vista Ultimate 64 bit. The computer ran well on all operating systems.
Recently I decided I wanted to go back to Vista 32 bit. I understand this requires a clean install, so I decided I would use the restoration CD that came with the computer and then upgrade it to Vista.
I inserted the CD in the tray and restarted the computer. When prompted to do so, I hit any key to boot from CD, and the files all loaded into memory without a problem. As soon as this step completed, I got a blue screen with the following:
A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.
If this is the first time you've seen this stop error screen, restart your computer. If this screen appears again, follow these steps:
Check for viruses on your computer.
Remove any newly installed hard drives or hard drive controllers.
Check your hard drive to make sure it is properly configured and terminated.
Run chkdsk /f to check for hard drive corruption, and then restart your computer.
Technical information:
***STOP: OXOOOOOO7B (OXF78D663C, OXOOOOOOOO, OXOOOOOOOO)
I have the latest AVG anti-virus with the latest updates installed, so don't believe virus to be an issue.
There was no new hardware installed, so again, no issue.
The hard drive is currently working fine with Vista Ultimate running, so it should be properly configured and terminated.
I ran chkdsk /f and everything was fine.
I then re-booted and tried again. Same result.
Tried once again with a full version of Windows 2000. Same result.
Bought a replacement hard drive and tried it with three different operating systems, each time I got the same result.
Anybody have any idea what the problem might be? I want to install Windows 7 but don't want to spend the money if I'm possibly looking at an expensive repair. Thanks for your time.
Ivor
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