Windows XP Pro SP2 error with SATA - RAID drives

Update: I've now tried my old HDD which I know works. It's an older 13GB Quantum IDE drive. Plugged it into the IDE port on the MB, erased the data on it, and still the exact same error. It's not the RAM, it's nothing to do with the power supply... I'm starting to think it's the motherboard.

I tend to think this is driver issue with windows. You may want to try slipstreaming some of your main system drivers into the installation disk. You could probably verify this issue by trying a Linux install, if your motherboard is causing issues, the linux should fail too, however I don't think it will. There's several good places to learn about slipstreaming, I tend to prefer the guides at MSFN.

Check to make sure the IDE drive's partition is errased completely and plug it into IDE 0 using the slower type cable (used for CDROMs) as the faster connection may just confuse things. Set it to Master. If the BIOS detects your drive then windows should install onto it.

Installing onto a mirror set is a challange. I discuss a workaround in my thread
"How to set up SATA, SCSI, RAID boot drive (workaround)"

This should get you there:
https://www.techspot.com/vb/topic33846.html

Kind Regards,
Robert Karl Stonjek

I had the same issue for the past two weeks and finally resolved it last night. I tried everything from the SATA II drives to memory incompatibilities and eventually it came down to my CD / DVD drives and the way that ASUS motherboards deal with onboard IDE's.

On my Asus P5WD2, which is very similar to yours, I have three onboard IDE's. Two of them are grouped together and one is sort of on its own on the side of the motherboard. Make sure that the optical drives (CD and DVD) are plugged into the side IDE and not the two that are grouped together.

Secondly make sure that you use the IDE cable with the blue, black and grey connector and not any of the other cables. Also remember to set the one drive as master and the other as slave and plug the grey connector into the master and the black connector into the slave and the blue one into the motherboard.

The problem comes from the fact that Windows or Linux (I've tried both) is seeing the optical drives as hard drives and therefore is not able to start up properly.

Whoa, thank you SO VERY MUCH edfam!!!

I've had my P5LD2 Deluxe for about a week now and I've been running into the same situation. I've googled "P5LD2 0x0000007B" several times over the past week and found many other people having this same problem, yet their solutions never solved my problem. I did my same google search 5 minutes ago and found this thread, gave your solution a try and BAM, it finally works!

Awesome man, thanks a bunch!

Thank You! Thank You!

Yeah I've been doing a little hair pulling and head scratching over this problem for the past couple days. Kept on getting that 0x7b BSOD error as well on the same motherboard. Used partition magic bootable floppies to actually wipe out all the existing data on the entire drive and then formatted them numerous times to try to get rid of that error.

Simply by switching the cd/dvd drive to the side ide connector like you mentioned is now allowing me to install xp on my new machine as I'm typing this on my crappy oldie (733 Mhz ugh). That damn manual should be more explicit about stuff like this. I thought it said you can plug in ATAPI/CD devices on primary or secondary ide connectors.

Also don't like the position of the CMOS pins are. It's hard to clear it and have to use needle nose plyers (sp?) to do it cuz I have an IDE drive connected to the Primary IDE connector. But this should be for a different thread I guess.

Again many thanks for the quick and easy solution to the BSOD problem upon windows xp install. If I had read this thread earlier I might have been able to simply do a repair install and not have to install all my apps again. But I'm just happy that I got past the damn problem.

:giddy:
-pogdish

I'm 16 and I'm building my first computer and thanks to your tip I got my computer working. I have another question though. When my computer starts up, it goes to BIOS and then it boots Windows. How can I get it to boot Windows as soon as I turn it on?

you can't. BIOS tells the computer where and how to boot. It is part of the hardware.
Once BIOS determines where to look for a boot device, it will load your operating system.
All intel compatible computers use 8086 technology at their core dating to about 1977 or earlier.

No I mean when I start my computer, the BIOS start up page come up and asks me if I want to go to set up or not and to press Delete or Tab. To get Windows to start I have to press Tab. How can I get it to load Windows automatically?

perhaps you have a a keyboard key stuck?

Try a different keyboard.

I would defintely try another keyboard. but I did have a computer do the same thing to me once. I finally went into the bios and then exited it and saved and it never came up again.

I'm having the exact same problem as Zenzin, except I'm using a different motherboard and smaller HDDs.

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.

I saw the post by edfam, but this mobo doesn't have an additional IDE controller, just IDE 1 and IDE 2. Any ideas?

Many thanks in advance, Steve.

Edfam! You're a lifesaver! I love you!!!! (or something :haha: )

I've been pulling my hair since yesterday afternoon with this problem, and simply changing the IDE-cable for my DVD-RW made the Windows XP setup work and detect the SATA 2 HDD without the use of any of the Asus SATA-Floppy-Drivers :haha:

Had I only read this thread throughoutly earlier!

Thnxz again so much!!!

This should be made a sticky (or at least Asus should have put this info/solver on their product/support site a long time ago!)

Got the same problem, reducing the memory to 1GB from 2GB prevented the blue screen, but was still not able to create a bootable raid with 2 SATAII drives. My windows doesn't want to start up with 2GB (windows XP Pro version 2002). I'm about to throw both Pc's out of the window. If you find a solution please let me know.

Huge thanks - been battling with the issue for days!

edfam said:

I had the same issue for the past two weeks and finally resolved it last night. I tried everything from the SATA II drives to memory incompatibilities and eventually it came down to my CD / DVD drives and the way that ASUS motherboards deal with onboard IDE's.

On my Asus P5WD2, which is very similar to yours, I have three onboard IDE's. Two of them are grouped together and one is sort of on its own on the side of the motherboard. Make sure that the optical drives (CD and DVD) are plugged into the side IDE and not the two that are grouped together.

Secondly make sure that you use the IDE cable with the blue, black and grey connector and not any of the other cables. Also remember to set the one drive as master and the other as slave and plug the grey connector into the master and the black connector into the slave and the blue one into the motherboard.

The problem comes from the fact that Windows or Linux (I've tried both) is seeing the optical drives as hard drives and therefore is not able to start up properly.

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Thanks, I was getting ready to dump my P5LD2 Deluxe. I thought it was down to PSU problems until I was lucky 'nuff to google your post.

I was having this same problem and I just disabled RAID on the harddrive and it worked.

use nLite to resolve the problem

Forget about floppy. Let you build you own custom XP setup with sata driver included by using nLite tool. Read here for more detail...

Regards,
Eko Wahyudiharto
http://www.paparadit.co.nr

edfam said:

I had the same issue for the past two weeks and finally resolved it last night. I tried everything from the SATA II drives to memory incompatibilities and eventually it came down to my CD / DVD drives and the way that ASUS motherboards deal with onboard IDE's.

On my Asus P5WD2, which is very similar to yours, I have three onboard IDE's. Two of them are grouped together and one is sort of on its own on the side of the motherboard. Make sure that the optical drives (CD and DVD) are plugged into the side IDE and not the two that are grouped together.

Secondly make sure that you use the IDE cable with the blue, black and grey connector and not any of the other cables. Also remember to set the one drive as master and the other as slave and plug the grey connector into the master and the black connector into the slave and the blue one into the motherboard.

The problem comes from the fact that Windows or Linux (I've tried both) is seeing the optical drives as hard drives and therefore is not able to start up properly.

Click to expand...

Thank you.

edfam said:

I had the same issue for the past two weeks and finally resolved it last night. I tried everything from the SATA II drives to memory incompatibilities and eventually it came down to my CD / DVD drives and the way that ASUS motherboards deal with onboard IDE's.

On my Asus P5WD2, which is very similar to yours, I have three onboard IDE's. Two of them are grouped together and one is sort of on its own on the side of the motherboard. Make sure that the optical drives (CD and DVD) are plugged into the side IDE and not the two that are grouped together.

Secondly make sure that you use the IDE cable with the blue, black and grey connector and not any of the other cables. Also remember to set the one drive as master and the other as slave and plug the grey connector into the master and the black connector into the slave and the blue one into the motherboard.

The problem comes from the fact that Windows or Linux (I've tried both) is seeing the optical drives as hard drives and therefore is not able to start up properly.

Click to expand...

thank you very much

ASUS P5K-E - STOP: 0x0000007B - SOLVED

I have an ASUS P5K-E Motherboard

I also kept getting this error whilst simply trying to load a fresh install of Windows XP onto my machine.

STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF78D2524, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)

Ended up going into BIOS - changed SATA Configuration from RAID to IDE and it all worked!

Once the install is finished I will return to BIOS and revert setting back to RAID so that I can reinstate my mirrored storage array.

Thanks to all! ;-)