I recently had an epox 8k7a motherboard die on me (wednesday night) due to what I believe was bad caps, but that is another issue. This happened outside of the end of the warranty by about two weeks. Instead of trying to get epox to fix it, I went and bought another board, the epox 8rda+.
Well, I received the board yesterday and now have been trying to work around a very annoying problem. I have an installation of windows 2000 (sp3) that I wish to keep. I don't want to reformat and reinstall windows again just due to getting a new motherboard.
Upon trying to boot up, the windows 2000 install is recognized and in the middle of the color windows bootup screen (with the progress gradiant going across the bottom of the screen) I get an 'inaccessible_boot_device' bsod with the error 'STOP: 0x0000007B (0xEB81B84c,0xC0000034,0x00000000,0x00000000)'
I've searched around quite a good amount through google and the like to find a resolution to his problem. It seems to be caused by (from http://www.jsiinc.com/subj/tip4900/rh4948.htm ) 'This error can occur if the registry entries and drivers for the mass storage controller hardware in the backup computer are not installed in Windows. '
So it seems like as this is a very new motherboard (this is the revision 2 of the 8rda+ as well), my windows 2000 installation does not have the required drivers.
I have also tried what was suggested here ( http://www.jsiinc.com/subm/tip6100/rh6157.htm ) which was to boot up the windows 2000 cd and try to repair the operating system install. I manually went through chkdsk and fixboot, though that did not help. Fixmbr warned that my install could be hosed if I ran it, so I did not. I did not have any Emergency Rescue Disks for the Windows 2000 CD Repair process so I went to a friend's house and made an emergency rescue disk from his install. It seems like you really have to make them from your own install (prior to it imploding upon itself) for it do any work, as it examined the hard drive and boot records and the like fine, but it was unable to replace about 99% of the files that it attempted to, starting after the first 2.
If someone knows exactly which highpoint ide controller is on the epox 8rda+ rev 2, (I found drivers for 'hpt372', 'hpt372n', and 'hpt374' all on the epox driver install cd and put them onto a floppy for loading but I don't know which corresponds to my board as it is not indicated in the manual. ) I would greatly appreciate the information. I tried loading these drivers by pressing f6 at the beginning of boot up of the win 2000 cd but I'm guessing that this will just install the drivers when you would install windows, which I am not capable of doing on my hard drive without reformatting which would involve a huge loss of data.
So basically, how can I get these drivers installed with their applicable registry entries onto my system so that I can rid it of the 'inaccessible_boot_device' problem? Would it be likely that I could put the boot drive in a friend's computer and then pop in the epox driver cd and install everything without having the same 'inaccessible_boot_device' problem? It seems like whenever you change motherboards with your boot drive the same bsod error occurs (from http://www.jsiinc.com/subm/tip6100/rh6157.htm ). Would I be able to manually install the drivers and edit the system registry of my boot disk while booted up in a friend's computer using his main system and just accessing my hard drive without running windows off of it? If so, how can I do this?
Thank you all very much in advance.
Well, I received the board yesterday and now have been trying to work around a very annoying problem. I have an installation of windows 2000 (sp3) that I wish to keep. I don't want to reformat and reinstall windows again just due to getting a new motherboard.
Upon trying to boot up, the windows 2000 install is recognized and in the middle of the color windows bootup screen (with the progress gradiant going across the bottom of the screen) I get an 'inaccessible_boot_device' bsod with the error 'STOP: 0x0000007B (0xEB81B84c,0xC0000034,0x00000000,0x00000000)'
I've searched around quite a good amount through google and the like to find a resolution to his problem. It seems to be caused by (from http://www.jsiinc.com/subj/tip4900/rh4948.htm ) 'This error can occur if the registry entries and drivers for the mass storage controller hardware in the backup computer are not installed in Windows. '
So it seems like as this is a very new motherboard (this is the revision 2 of the 8rda+ as well), my windows 2000 installation does not have the required drivers.
I have also tried what was suggested here ( http://www.jsiinc.com/subm/tip6100/rh6157.htm ) which was to boot up the windows 2000 cd and try to repair the operating system install. I manually went through chkdsk and fixboot, though that did not help. Fixmbr warned that my install could be hosed if I ran it, so I did not. I did not have any Emergency Rescue Disks for the Windows 2000 CD Repair process so I went to a friend's house and made an emergency rescue disk from his install. It seems like you really have to make them from your own install (prior to it imploding upon itself) for it do any work, as it examined the hard drive and boot records and the like fine, but it was unable to replace about 99% of the files that it attempted to, starting after the first 2.
If someone knows exactly which highpoint ide controller is on the epox 8rda+ rev 2, (I found drivers for 'hpt372', 'hpt372n', and 'hpt374' all on the epox driver install cd and put them onto a floppy for loading but I don't know which corresponds to my board as it is not indicated in the manual. ) I would greatly appreciate the information. I tried loading these drivers by pressing f6 at the beginning of boot up of the win 2000 cd but I'm guessing that this will just install the drivers when you would install windows, which I am not capable of doing on my hard drive without reformatting which would involve a huge loss of data.
So basically, how can I get these drivers installed with their applicable registry entries onto my system so that I can rid it of the 'inaccessible_boot_device' problem? Would it be likely that I could put the boot drive in a friend's computer and then pop in the epox driver cd and install everything without having the same 'inaccessible_boot_device' problem? It seems like whenever you change motherboards with your boot drive the same bsod error occurs (from http://www.jsiinc.com/subm/tip6100/rh6157.htm ). Would I be able to manually install the drivers and edit the system registry of my boot disk while booted up in a friend's computer using his main system and just accessing my hard drive without running windows off of it? If so, how can I do this?
Thank you all very much in advance.
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