Windows Installation Error

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My friend recently purchased a C2D and all sorts of goodies to build himself a rig but he's having a hell of a time getting Windows to install on it.

cpu: Intel E6400
motherboard: Abit AB9 Pro
ram: GSkill PC6400 pk 2x1GB
vga: evga 7600GT KO
hard drives: 2 x WD2500ks
psu: 450 watt

It will read the hard drives in bios, you can format them as you like... the ram passes testing etc but after installing the initial drivers for windows setup, and when getting to "Starting Windows", the blue screen of death appears with the following message:

0x0000007b (0xF78D2524, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)

We've tried disabling one of the drives, changing which slots the ram is in etc and nothing has helped. Not sure if there's a way to slipstream around it if it's a driver error but we can't get a C: either way. Probably just a totally n00bish question but it's got us stumped.

 

[Nick5324]

Link

Maybe something there will help. I seriously doubt the first scenario of a virus, but maybe something discussed after the virus section will help.


I assume those are SATA HDD's, maybe you need to load some drivers for the HDD when you start Windows setup. This is a total guess..... not an educated one .

 

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His motherboard's manual was very, very poorly put together- we found out that even though you're only using the PATA for a CD-ROM drive, you have to install the SATA drivers for it as well as Intel's Sata drivers. So the problem is fixed, hopefully. Thanks for the reply.

 

[silverferro]

Hi,I have the same exact problem. I have MSI K7N2 Delta2 Motherboard,and two IDE Maxtor Hardrives. Diamond Max 9 and Diamond Max 10 both of same capacity(80 Gigs) setup with raid 0. Windows gives errors during the "windows starting" part of the installation and goes to blue error screen.

What is wrong? Can anyone help me please.

 

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If you have floppies with drivers on them, you need to load all of them during the windows installation, not just the ones you think you need.