Windows XP install BSOD

[jdbrown]

Hi all,
I just purchased and built a new system with an ASUS P5B deluxe/wifi MB, X6800 C2X Processor, 4GB RAM, 2 360GB SATA hard drives (not set up as RAID - I plan the quiet one for operating systems and the fast one for data from work), and an IDE DVD+RW (Pioneer). Everything appears to be assembled properly, and I updated the bios to 904.
I downloaded Ubuntu Edgy and was able to boot it. It detected one of the two hard drives and was able to partition it. I didn't bother going through the installer just yet because I actually need WinXP for some programs first. Unfortunately WinXP (SP2) blue screens just before it loads the GUI. It's giving an error code 0x7B which seems to indicate the hard drives are not accessible. I tried creating a driver floppy from the cd for the motherboard, which gave me the jmicron driver. The installer complains that it already has that driver, and no matter whether I use the drivers from the floppy or the windows cd I still get the same blue screen. I've tried setting the bios to use both ahci mode and ide mode for the hard drive controller with identical results.
Can anyone give me some suggestions to get xp up and running?

Thanks,
JB

 

[mancunian]

Try with just one stick of RAM.

Install Windows, add the rest. See if it then gives problems.

 

[jdbrown]

Originally posted by: mancunian
Try with just one stick of RAM.

Install Windows, add the rest. See if it then gives problems.

No good. Same result.

 

[mancunian]

Having read a little about the error code you gave, it would appear the most likely cause is a non-compatible SATA driver.

Have a read of this.

 

[jdbrown]

[FIXED]

I did some digging around and discovered the problem is indeed the SATA driver, but not the JMicron one I originally thought. I used the driver for the Intel Matrix Storage Manager: http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts...ame=All%20Operating%20Systems&lang=eng

Everything appears peachy now. WinXP booted and I'm loading updates now.

Thanks for the suggestions.

JB

 

[mancunian]

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