New Motherboard Causes Blue Sreen

[Ademar]

I originally installed Windows 2000 Professional on a pc that has a 440BX
chipset motherboard. After installing a different (815) motherboard and
leaving all other hardware the same, I get the blue screen of death when
Windows tries to load at startup.

Here's what the blue screen displays:

*** STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF241F84C,0xC0000034,0x00000000,0x00000000)
INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE

Any way to fix this without having to re-install the OS?
Thanks
Ademar

 

[me]

try redoing the boot sequence from recovery console

 

[MadDog]

-----Original Message-----
I originally installed Windows 2000 Professional on a pc that has a 440BX
chipset motherboard. After installing a different (815) motherboard and
leaving all other hardware the same, I get the blue screen of death when
Windows tries to load at startup.

Here's what the blue screen displays:

*** STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF241F84C,0xC0000034,0x00000000,0x00000000)
INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE

Any way to fix this without having to re-install the OS?
Thanks
Ademar


.

Go here:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;249694


MD

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

Normally, unless the new motherboard is virtually identical to the
old one (same chipset, IDE controllers, etc), you'll most likely need
to perform a repair (a.k.a. in-place upgrade) installation, at the
very least (and don't forget to reinstall any service packs and
subsequent hot fixes):

How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade of Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q292175

What an In-Place Win2K Upgrade Changes and What It Doesn't
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q306952

If that fails:

How to Move a Windows 2000 Installation to Different Hardware
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q249694&ID=KB;EN-US;Q249694


Bruce Chambers
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[Guest]

Can you start up in Safe Mode? If you can, go into Safe Mode and install
the motherboard drivers from the CD that came with it or downloaded from the
motherboard manufacturer's web site. This has worked for me with AMD-based
motherboard upgrades, but I've not done an Intel upgrade in many years.

Phil

 

[f/f george]

Another option would be to put the 2k cd in and boot from it, at the
SECOND repair option chose it. It will overwrite the old drivers with
the new ones. The SECOND repair option is when it finds an existing
Windows on the hard drive.
The sytem will then load and all will be fine. I have done this
successfully even when going from an AMD board to an Intel board,
processors, ram, EVERYTHING different! Except the hard drive.

 

[Ademar]

We did go into the recovery console (F8 at startup) and tried some things
and it didn't work.

 

[Ademar]

I'm not sure this will help. The two motherboards are very different.

 

[Ademar]

I ran a "repair" using the Win2k CD at startup as you suggested but that did
not resolve the blue screen. I ran all the different repair options and no
luck.

 

[Hung Khee Hua]

Hi Ademar, that was also my experience. Repir-install doesn't work.

For my case I installed W2k on a new hdd at home (VIA chipset m/b) and
put the hdd in my friend's computer (Intel chipset). I got the STOP:
0x0000007B ... INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE message.

I forgot to try Safe Mode to re-install m/b drivers, so I re-install
everything from scratch again. (But I doubt Safe Mode can do the job).

What a waste of time- 2 hours at home, then 2 hours in friend's house.

Hung

 

[Ademar]

I'm still trying to find a solution for this because I don't want to have to
re-install the OS and all of the many applications that are already on this
pc.