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BSOD on RAID Install with XP Pro

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Endymion123

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Hi there,

I'm hoping that the tech wizards here can help me as I'm in something of a bind.

I'm running a Supermicro PDSG4 motherboard with a 3.2GHz Pentium D 840 chip, twin 500GB Hitachi SATA-II drives, two sticks of Crucial PC4200 DDR2 RAM and Radeon X300SE.

Board specs: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/DualCore/955/PDSG4.cfm

I chose the PDSG4 because it seems to be the only motherboard available that offers dual core support, PCI-Express, PCI-X 133 and the normal 32-bit PCI slots. I need PCI-X 133 for a hardware project I'm working on.

The motherboard defaults to IDE Enhanced Mode when powered-up, and using this it works swimmingly. The problem is, that its write-to-disk speed is woeful compared to my RAID-enabled Dell Dimension 8400.

So, I switch into RAID, set up a nice RAID0 array then load up the XP Pro installer, pressing F6 and specifying the correct drivers. Now as soon as it accesses the HD, it bluescreens with this error:

STOP 0x0000007B (0xF8962524, 0xC00000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)

I have tried different drives, ACPI instead of RAID, but nothing's working. When I F6 and specify the drivers, the installer says it has an older one of its own I could try. When I use this, it works BUT as soon as the installer reboots, I get the BSOD again 🙁

Supermicro technical support cannot understand why this is not working either and have come to the conclusion that it's a bad board and I should RMA it.

The thing is, the board works perfectly in IDE Enhanced Mode. How can the board be faulty if this is the case? Surely it's more likely to be a software error in the driver or the BIOS (which I have reflashed). Gut instinct tells me that a replacement board will do exactly the same as this one.

To quote Penelope Pitstop.... "Hayyyyyyalp!"
 
Originally posted by: Endymion123
Hi there,

I'm hoping that the tech wizards here can help me as I'm in something of a bind.

I'm running a Supermicro PDSG4 motherboard with a 3.2GHz Pentium D 840 chip, twin 500GB Hitachi SATA-II drives, two sticks of Crucial PC4200 DDR2 RAM and Radeon X300SE.

Board specs: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/DualCore/955/PDSG4.cfm

I chose the PDSG4 because it seems to be the only motherboard available that offers dual core support, PCI-Express, PCI-X 133 and the normal 32-bit PCI slots. I need PCI-X 133 for a hardware project I'm working on.

The motherboard defaults to IDE Enhanced Mode when powered-up, and using this it works swimmingly. The problem is, that its write-to-disk speed is woeful compared to my RAID-enabled Dell Dimension 8400.

So, I switch into RAID, set up a nice RAID0 array then load up the XP Pro installer, pressing F6 and specifying the correct drivers. Now as soon as it accesses the HD, it bluescreens with this error:

STOP 0x0000007B (0xF8962524, 0xC00000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)

I have tried different drives, ACPI instead of RAID, but nothing's working. When I F6 and specify the drivers, the installer says it has an older one of its own I could try. When I use this, it works BUT as soon as the installer reboots, I get the BSOD again 🙁

Supermicro technical support cannot understand why this is not working either and have come to the conclusion that it's a bad board and I should RMA it.

The thing is, the board works perfectly in IDE Enhanced Mode. How can the board be faulty if this is the case? Surely it's more likely to be a software error in the driver or the BIOS (which I have reflashed). Gut instinct tells me that a replacement board will do exactly the same as this one.

To quote Penelope Pitstop.... "Hayyyyyyalp!"
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Have you been to the RAID vendor's webpage to get their latest RAID-chip drivers?

I agree with your analysis, and Stop 7B is the classic inaccessible boot device error, so that's the most plausible course of action.
 
Good lord, someone who agrees with my analysis!!

I'm afraid I do not know where to look for the RAID-chip driver - the board uses the 955X Intel Chipset though. I have already downloaded the latest drivers from the Intel site and they do exactly the same thing.

Here's the webpage I found them on: http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/sb/CS-020684.htm

I have also been pointed by Supermicro Tech Support to their latest drivers, but unsurprisingly, they are the same as the ones on the supplied CD-ROM and they do not work either.

I should also point out that Tech Support noted that my Hitachi drives had to be manually set to SATA-II in order to work, but even when doing that, I still get the same error. Additionally, I get the same error on my SATA-I Maxtor drive.
 
Just a quick reply - I've finally got to the bottom of this. My slipstreamed copy of XP Pro appears to be the culprit - I've gone back to the original SP1 media and lo and behold, the Intel Raid drivers work just fine. How utterly bizarre...
 
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