New computer + Same HDD = Blue Screen of death!

[SlickAU]

Hey Everyone,

I got a new computer at work yesterday 🙂 (P4 3.06Ghz, 1GB DDR400 RAM, some motherboard which i cant remember what it is) and I am using the same video card, sound card, cd-drive and Hard Drive as in my old system.

Now the problem is 🙁, when I start the computer it works fine until the windows 2000 loading screen comes up. It then displays the Blue Screen Of Death and says something like "Dumping Physical Memory"...

Anyone know why this might be doing this? Are the kernel/OS files for Windows 2000 saved in RAM or something?

Any solutions on how to fix it? (I am thinking of running Windows repair)

Cheers,

Slick 😎

 

[Hiruko]

You should probably reinstall everything. You are using a different motherboard so it's very possible the correct drivers or configuration is not for the motherboard and Win2k is looking for your old hardware. It's best to reinstall it all for it to work right.

 

[FlyingPenguin]

You can't just swap mobos. You have to perform a Windows Repair Install: http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

HOWEVER a repair install only works reliably for WinXP. in my experience a Win2K Repair install for a mobo swap rarely works unless the mobo uses the same chipset as the old one.

Also you will almost certainly fail unless your Win2K CD is slipstreamed to at least Service Pack 3 (4 would be better). Versions of Win2K prior to SP3 don't support drives larger than 137Gb (48bit LBA) for instance, and prior to SP1 Win2K doesn't support UDMA 100/133. You'll run into a lot of issues like that unless you're using a CD slipstreamed to the latest service pack.

I'd really consider a clean install. If it was WinXP you'd probably have no problem with a repair install but with Win2K you're probably wasting your time.

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: SlickAU
Hey Everyone,

I got a new computer at work yesterday 🙂 (P4 3.06Ghz, 1GB DDR400 RAM, some motherboard which i cant remember what it is) and I am using the same video card, sound card, cd-drive and Hard Drive as in my old system.

Now the problem is 🙁, when I start the computer it works fine until the windows 2000 loading screen comes up. It then displays the Blue Screen Of Death and says something like "Dumping Physical Memory"...

Anyone know why this might be doing this? Are the kernel/OS files for Windows 2000 saved in RAM or something?

Any solutions on how to fix it? (I am thinking of running Windows repair)

Cheers,

Slick 😎

What is the exact error? Stop 7B, a disk error, or a HAL mismatch error?

A repair install is a good backup plan, but if you can put that hard drive back into your previous system, you can easily fix a stop 7B. As long as the HAL is the same, you can simply put the drive back in the old system, change the hard drive interface to "PCI Standard IDE", shut down, and immediately put it into the new system.

If the HAL is different (what computer was it in?) then you need to do the repair install. Win2000's repair install will work fine.

 

[AMDCrazy]

Originally posted by: Hiruko
You should probably reinstall everything. You are using a different motherboard so it's very possible the correct drivers or configuration is not for the motherboard and Win2k is looking for your old hardware. It's best to reinstall it all for it to work right.

I agree 100%....🙂

 

[dclive]

Here's the fix, guys, which is essentially a slightly modified version of what I suggested.

Reinstalling or repairing will "fix" this, but is a massive amount of work to fix a very simple problem, as long as you have the old hardware handy.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314082