It's been a week of learning curve balls
I bought a new DVD RW (Pioneer DVR-109). I've wanted a DVD, and I also wanted to upgrade from Win2K Pro to XP Pro. We have the MSDN kit at work and the boss agreed to let me use one of the group licenses since I do a lot of my programming work at home and there are extra licenses.
I have a 4-year old custom built ABIT KT7RAID from a local shop, Athlon 900 TBird, 2 IBM Deskstar 75GXP 30GB, 768 RAM. First install attempt I didnt know the DVD had to be set as a Slave. I just removed the CDRW that never did perform too well, and put it in its place. Figured that out. But the fun began when I tried the upgrade to XP last night.
Halfway through it objected that there was a driver, VIA Bus Master IDE Controller, viaide.sys that Windows STRONGLY recommended I decline. So I did. Evidently I was supposed to install something else but I didnt learn that until, after the upgrade, the machine went straight to a blues screen with 0x0000007B. After much fretting, I just started the upgrade again and this time accepted the unacceptable driver. It completed and booted OK.
Now today I was just now doing stuff and left a while and came back to another blue screen with 0x0000007A. I restarted and got the BIOS screen telling me "Primary hard disk failure." So I thought I would try unplugging the DVD, and it booted OK. But then I thought maybe the viaide.sys really is bad, so I reconnected the DVD and it booted OK.
After a long search to find what I THINK is an appropriate VIA driver (viaidexp.sys from the ABIT site at the page of drivers for my board), I have it here and can install it if I can find out how. I Tried Device Manager and both Install Automatically and Install from a List couldn't find it, even when I moved it in next door to its old friend viaide.sys.
Any help?
I bought a new DVD RW (Pioneer DVR-109). I've wanted a DVD, and I also wanted to upgrade from Win2K Pro to XP Pro. We have the MSDN kit at work and the boss agreed to let me use one of the group licenses since I do a lot of my programming work at home and there are extra licenses.
I have a 4-year old custom built ABIT KT7RAID from a local shop, Athlon 900 TBird, 2 IBM Deskstar 75GXP 30GB, 768 RAM. First install attempt I didnt know the DVD had to be set as a Slave. I just removed the CDRW that never did perform too well, and put it in its place. Figured that out. But the fun began when I tried the upgrade to XP last night.
Halfway through it objected that there was a driver, VIA Bus Master IDE Controller, viaide.sys that Windows STRONGLY recommended I decline. So I did. Evidently I was supposed to install something else but I didnt learn that until, after the upgrade, the machine went straight to a blues screen with 0x0000007B. After much fretting, I just started the upgrade again and this time accepted the unacceptable driver. It completed and booted OK.
Now today I was just now doing stuff and left a while and came back to another blue screen with 0x0000007A. I restarted and got the BIOS screen telling me "Primary hard disk failure." So I thought I would try unplugging the DVD, and it booted OK. But then I thought maybe the viaide.sys really is bad, so I reconnected the DVD and it booted OK.
After a long search to find what I THINK is an appropriate VIA driver (viaidexp.sys from the ABIT site at the page of drivers for my board), I have it here and can install it if I can find out how. I Tried Device Manager and both Install Automatically and Install from a List couldn't find it, even when I moved it in next door to its old friend viaide.sys.
Any help?
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