STOP Error when booting windows. (Blue screen)

[Pex]

"A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.

It says to check for viruses or remove any new devices. Then it says to run CHKDSK /f.


Technical Information:

***STOP: 0x0000007B (OxF7C4560, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)








Stuff I've tried:

Resetting my BIOS and CMOS back to default....(flipped the battery out and tried the pin/jumper method)


Tried exchanging harddrives, but that doesn't seem to be it. All harddrivers get the same error and the HD that was in the machine at the time has been formatted and works fine on other machines.



I remade both the bootsector and MBR on the HD that was orignally in the machine the time it crashed. Oh yea here is what i was doing when it crashed.

I was playing DAOC in a window...and my PC just froze.. I hard reset and it said my video card recovered from an error. Started playing again and it froze again...and i hard reset again.


After that time, every time i tried to reboot I got the "Disk boot error. Insert system disk" error. that's when i reformatted aand received the blue screen.


I've also run scandisk and CHKDSK and they found nothing. my next steps would be to possibly purchase a new motherboard. I feel it might be a problem with my current mobo...in the BIOS or something.

I receive no beeps aside from the standard one beep.

thank you for any help provided.


edit: im going to try to flash the BIOS and update it, or replace it.


edit2: of course abit's ftp is down. can't get updated BIOS yet.


edit3: updated BIOS and still blue screens. I'm going to replace the mobo.

















EDIT: Windows anti-ghosting CRAP software was at fault. After replacing the mobo and reinstalling XP, everything worked fine.

 

[LiLithTecH]

Why do you think it is the Motherboard?

What CPU?
What brand\size memory are you using?
What brand\power rating PSU?

Are you having issues only when gaming?

 

[Smilin]

I'm not sure I follow your current situation.

Did you format or not? If you did there is nothing left to fix. Put a new OS on the drive.


During boot this is what causes a Stop 0x0000007B. This is a somewhat accurate list of what happens:
1. Post, Bios reads the MBR from sector zero into memory and executes it.
2. The boot code locates the boot sector on your partition and executes it.
3. ntldr, ntdetect are run, boot.ini is parsed.
4. portions of the system hive (registry) are loaded, mass storage driver is loaded
-A failure at this point will give an immediate Stop 0x0000007B-
5. ntoskrnl is located from boot.ini and loaded.
6. All boot time drivers are loaded including filter drivers.
Failure to load any of these drivers will give a Stop 0x0000007B after some of the splash screen progress bar has filled. If any of these drivers misbehave and cause failure to communicate with the drive you'll also get a 7B.

Are you getting the type of 7B after step 4 or after step 6?

I have seen a hard shutdown with filesystem corruption cause this many times. Correcting the corruption should get you past this. There may be some damaged driver files you'll have to replace as well. You may have failing hardware at the root of this problem.

That format you did confuses me. If you formatted the drive you should have gotten a completely different error than a stop 7B. Likely a missing ntldr.

 

[Ryoga]

From here, Error 0x7B is INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE.

"The INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE bug check has a value of 0x0000007B. This indicates that Windows has lost access to the system partition during startup.

[...]

"If your system has SCSI adapters, contact the adapter manufacturer to obtain updated Windows drivers. Try disabling sync negotiation in the SCSI BIOS, checking the cabling and the SCSI IDs of each device, and confirming proper termination. For IDE devices, define the onboard IDE port as Primary only. Also check each IDE device for the proper master/slave/stand alone setting. Try removing all IDE devices except for hard disks. Finally, check the System Log in Event Viewer for additional error messages that might help pinpoint the device or driver that is causing the error."

If that HDD is SATA, then drivers might be the issue. But you kept referring to IDE, so I suspect it's a PATA (old ATA) drive. I would also try swapping IDE cable. Use 80-conductior IDE cable, placing HDD as single master at the end of the cable.

I agree swapping the mobo will probably resolve the issue. It can't be just one HDD, since the original one works fine in other PCs, and known good ones similarly fail when put into this PC.

 

[ChuaChua]

I had a similar error when I first got my eMachine m6809 notebook.
It said, "MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION .... windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.... etc"

I looked it up and it had something to do with pentium chips but my notebook had an AMD64 chip.
I reinstalled the cpu/chipset drivers and I haven't had that problem since.

 

[badnewcastle]

I'm fairly new at working on computers and what not, but I did have this exact error about a year ago on my dell about a week after I installed a 9700 pro.

What I did to fix it...

1) started windows in safe mode...

2) did a system restore to a point that I had known everything to be working fine.

after the system restore I never had a problem again. But it sounds like you don't have the old hd so you probably can't do that.

 

[Sianath]

Any answer to Smilin's questions? There is a very limited set of issues that will cause a 0x7b. There are a few applications that are known to cause it after uninstall, but I seriously doubt you were running them. Even in those cases, it boils down to one of the issues Smilin listed in his post.

 

[Pex]

I replaced the mobo and still got the same error. I think I have it narrowed down to the CPU or the PSU. I have replaced the mother board...and have tried swapping out the RAM, video card, HDs, and ROMs with a different machine. I've tried disconnecting everything but 1 HD...and still get the error. Everything POSTS fine but it simply resets when windows is starting up...before the windows startup screen. I can't try my other PSU because it doesn't have the required ATX power connector. I dont know if I even want to buy another CPU....i might just wait for HL2 and upgrade then.


Stats:


Ram - 1 gig corsair XMS 3200 dual channel ram. 400 mhz

2.8 p4

9800 AiW pro

WD 7200 RPM 120 gig.





I try to boot into safe mode and it runs down some files and always reboots at the file named "alim1541.sys"



I guess ill get a cheap PSU first and try that...then I know its my CPU. my current PSU is Antec 450 watt.

there is an OS on the HD now cause i reformatted with it on my other machine.


Edit: this might be my problem:

http://forums.devshed.com/t85585/s.html&highlight=installing+safe+mode