Re: 0x0000007B

Are there any BIOS updates for the system?

Yes there was a BIOS update, posted I think July 2nd on Intel's site. The
update description was terse... some issues with some strings not being
filled in and such. I downloaded and installed the new BIOS. Nothing really
changed.

I determined that my inability to boot the XP Pro setup CD was a problem
with the CD-ROM drive. I replaced it, and I was able to load XP Pro so that
it boots off of the C: drive.

I ran tap starting from this "normal" configuration. The BIOS wouldn't even
boot the resulting image.

As I mentioned in a previous post, I tracked down the components for most of
the drivers that XP Pro loads, that my CF boot wasn't loading, and I added
them to my configuration. That added about 50 additional drivers. There was
no real change. The only difference was that it took a little longer before
the BSOD 7B bug check showed up.

-Mike

"Sean Liming (MVP)" wrote:


At this point I would have to play with the unit to see what is going on.

Are there any BIOS updates for the system?

Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit

"Mike" <Mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I would just install XP Pro on the HDD with no USB flash disk attached.
XP
Pro install should have reconized the USB flash disk as a removable
device.

When I converted a USB memory stick to a virtual floppy disk, it booted as
A:, but the XP recovery image that I installed on the memory stick did not
recognize either the hard drive or the CD-ROM drive.

I didn't seem to have the option of installing XP Pro without the XPe
bootable USB memory stick, since the bootable image on the XP install CD
trapped before it got going.

USB devices are not available in the BIOS boot order, instead there is an
extraordinary option to boot from a USB device before the devices
specified
in the boot order.

Normally USB drives are enumerated after the fixed disks. But when USB
boot
is enabled, and one is used as a boot device, the BIOS insists on
enumerating
it first. Hence the USB drive is assigned drive letter C:, instead of
being
assigned a drive letter E through Z. Hence the issue with XP Pro being
installed as disk D, and refusing to boot when enumerated as disk C.

XP setup doesn't seem to provide any means to indicate what it has
determined about the fixed/removable status of the USB memory stick.
After
XP Pro is installed, it does show the USB drive in C: is removable.

In any case, the whims of XP Pro are irrelevant. Installing XP Pro was
only
supposed to be the means to an end. Running TAP under XP Pro still
resulted
in a STOP: 0000007B error.

The two devices which Intel provided drivers for do end up with question
marks inside of Device Manager in XP Pro. The fact that XP pro runs fine
without those drivers shows that they are irrelevant. (When I did install
the drivers on XP pro, one of the installs actually failed -- I believe
the
PCI device number in the INF file is wrong.)

TAP reports 63 devices, and the resulting XPe image has 94 drivers (.sys
files installed in windows\system32\drivers). The XP Pro image has 165
drivers. I assume that one or more of those extra drivers is the cause of
my
problem.

Just determining the XPe component or components associated with a few of
those drivers inside of Target Designer is a bit of an ordeal. Of the two
that I tried, one (vgasave.sys) wasn't even available in any XPe
component.

Is there any better way to attack this problem?

-Mike

"Sean Liming (MVP)" wrote:


I would just install XP Pro on the HDD with no USB flash disk attached.
XP
Pro install should have reconized the USB flash disk as a removable
device.

Video and audio are the only components missing, which is typical.
Doesn't
sound like there are any special bus driver components.

Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit


"Mike" <Mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Sean,

When I inspected the BOOT.INI file on the hard drive on which I had
attempted to install XP, it didn't make any sense to me.

I got past the Windows setup infinite loop by copying NTLDR and
NTDETECT.COM
to an empty USB memory stick. Then I added a generic "first disk,
first
partition" BOOT.INI file. I did a USB reboot, and XP setup ran through
to
completion.

It appears that my problem was that XP setup is confused by running it
from
a USB memory stick. I can't reboot this copy of XP Pro without the
helper
USB memory stick in place, seemingly to make sure that the drive with
XP
on
it enumerates as D:.

I ran TAP from XP Pro, and contrary to popular wisdom, I ended up with
4
fewer
devices than when I had run TAP from XPe (USB boot). That is, 63
devices
instead of 67. I'm building another copy of XPe using that device
component,
but I'm not hopeful.

The D201GLY motherboard did come with a CD, which has 2 drivers on it:

"SIS Accelerated Graphics Port"
"SIS Mirage Graphics"

There is an autorun Intel installation program that can be used to
install
these components, apparently after Windows is up and running. The
documentation does not mention loading these drivers during XP setup.

With this newest devices.pmq file, Component Designer reports 5 missing
drivers (one more than before):

Warning:Could not find a driver for Video Controller (VGA Compatible)
(PCI\VEN_1039&DEV_6330&SUBSYS_D61F8086&REV_04).
Warning:Could not find a driver for Multimedia Audio Controller
(PCI\VEN_1039&DEV_7012&SUBSYS_D61F8086&REV_A0).
Warning:Could not find a driver for Hardware Device Storage\Volume
(STORAGE\Volume).
Warning:Could not find a driver for Generic volume (STORAGE\Volume).
Warning:Could not find a driver for Generic volume (STORAGE\Volume).

The "SIS Mirage Graphics" driver corresponds to DEV_6330. The "SIS
Accelerated Graphics Port" driver does not correspond to DEV_7012,
(it's
DEV_1) and I haven't been able to trackdown a matching driver on the
SIS
website.

-Mike

"Sean Liming (MVP)" wrote:

If Windows XP Pro cannot install, then you will not get very far with
XPe.
Did the board come with any special drivers that require a F6 during
setup
to install?

Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit


"Mike" <Mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Sean,

This motherboard has a single IDE channel (single IDE connector) so
it
can
handle at most 2 IDE devices at once. The CF is installed in an
IDE2CF
adapter, (which would normally be connected as the master on the
primary
(i.e. only) IDE channel). There is no SATA connector.

In your article (referenced below), you mention that the best
platform
to
run TAP from is XP Professional. That made real sense to me, so I
connected
a blank 80 GB hard drive and a CD-ROM drive to the motherboard.

When I attempt to boot the XP setup CD, I get a "Trap 00000006
===EXCEPTION===" message, with a short register dump. I'm not sure
what
to
make of that.

Next I augmented my USB boot with every file system I could find,
and I
tried running XP setup from XPe booted from USB. That seemed to
work,
so
I
attempted to install Windows on the hard drive. Setup copies a
bunch
of
files to the hard drive, does some initialization, then reboots.
Setup
says
to remove any floppy from the A drive before the reboot. I wasn't
sure
whether to take that literally, since there is no floppy adapter on
this
board.

If I leave the USB memory stick plugged in, the boot.ini file
directs
the
boot to "XP Professional Setup", instead of "XP Embedded", as you
might
expect. However, setup basically starts over at the beginning,
asking
me
what disk partition to install Windows on. I go through the
motions...
it
copies files, reboots, and I'm back where I started (i.e. an
infinite
loop).

If it remove the USB memory stick, I get the following message:

"Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware
configuration
problem. Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot
path
and
disk hardware. Please check the Windows documentation about
hardware
disk
configuration and your hardware reference manuals for additional
information."

Another Catch-22. I'm guessing that that last error message occurs
because
the USB memory stick is "C:" when XPe is booted, then the hard disk
becomes
"C:" if I remove the memory stick when XP setup reboots.

HP has a utility that is supposed to make a USB memory stick look
like
a
floppy disk. I'll try that next and see if I can get XP setup to
cooperate
better.

-Mike

"Sean Liming (MVP)" wrote:


Help me understand the IDE configuration - Is this an IDE to CF
adapter
on a
secondary channel?
Is it possible to boot from a regular IDE/SATA hard drive?

Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental
Toolkit



"Mike" <Mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am getting the dreaded BSOD 7B error during a first boot from
compact
flash.

I am attempting to build an XPE bootable image for compact flash
on
an
Intel
DL201GLY motherboard. This is a new board, with SIS chipset
(SIS662
/
SIS964L). The board has one IDE channel (with an added compact
flash
adapter) and no floppy support.

I managed to build an XPE bootable image for a USB memory stick.
When
I
boot from USB, Windows does not see anything on the IDE channel.
I've
tried
both compact flash and CD-ROM. On the other hand, the BIOS has
no
.

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