STOP: 0x0000007B when installing windows on Asus Motherboard

[SteveMitchell]

Asus A8N-SLi Mobo
Athlon 3200+
2x WD 36.7GB SATA HDDs
1GB RAM

- Enabled NVRAID in BIOS using channel 1 and 2 on the controller
- Setup a RAID array using the two HDDs (showing as 'Healthy' stripe, bootable)
- Restart the comp and begin installing windows
- Press F6 to use the asus RAID drivers
- Drivers install fine and windows continues to load it's files
- The message "windows is starting" pops up, followed shortly by STOP: 0x0000007B.

Another post on here with the same problem on a different Asus motherboard suggests that the problem could be with my CD-ROM drive - allegedly there is a problem with Asus's IDE controller. Is this true, and is there a way for me to get around this problem?

Many thanks in advance, Steve.

 

[Eric Legge]

This page devoted to troubleshooting STOP errors might be of some help:

http://aumha.org/win5/kbestop.htm

Have you checked the Asus site for any updates to the chipset drivers?

 

[gary_hendricks]

I'd recommend checking out the ASUS site to see if there are any upgrades to the BIOS.