Blue Screen Upon Installing New Motherboard/CPU

[Guest]

Hello everyone. I finally had time yesterday to get my new PC gear installed.
The new motherboard is a GigaByte GA-K8NS Pro, and the CPU us an Athlon 64
3000+.

The first problem I had that was Windows related was seeing "Cannot find
NTLDR" or something similar. I asked about it and someone said that Windows
XP doesn't like motherboard/CPU changes, so in order for it to recognize it
properly I was to do a repair install of Windows XP.

Finally the repair install finished, and I rebooted the machine. Now I get a
classic Windows XP Blue Screen saying the following:

***STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF7c46640, 0xc00000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)

I'm wondering what to do now. I cannot do a format as the MSDN article says
because I have so much data that I would lose, and had no idea to back up
because I've done a motherboard/CPU switch before using Windows XP and it
worked fine.

Thanks in advance!

-Mark

 

[Mark Delaney]

Hello everyone. I finally had time yesterday to get my new PC gear
installed.
The new motherboard is a GigaByte GA-K8NS Pro, and the CPU us an Athlon 64
3000+.

Did you move your hard drive from your existing computer into your new
computer? This is what I deduce after reading your post. There are
solutions, but you state that what is on your drive is valuable to you.
Hmmmmm.

If your data is very important to you (like loosing it is going to set you
back badly) and you want to safely get everything back, you could or should
consider taking the drive out (for now) and get Windows working on another
hard drive.Do you happen to have another hard drive you could install XP as
a clean install (A second hand HD would do fine and would be dirt cheap if
money is an issue). If so, you could have everything working fine, and then
be able to put your troubled drive in the computer as a second drive, the D:
or E: drive. From there, copying, sorting and restoring all your information
(including mail, Address Book, Contacts, Internet favorites) should be easy,
or at least doable.When all is finally well, with a second hard drive, you
could organize some good disaster recovery strategies, such as Backup of
State Data, Automatic System Restore and other nice features that come handy
when times get tough.

Mark Delaney, MCT

 

[Guest]

Hi, and thanks for the response.

I have 3 hard drives in this machine. 60GB Maxtor 7200RPM (C), 80GB Maxtor
7200 RPM (D), and 160GB Maxtor 7200RPM (G).

My main concern with formatting the C drive and losing my Windows install is
all the work I have put in to my install. All the Windows things I have
tweaked, all the programs that I have installed that may no longer be
available as freeware, or I have no clue where many of my discs are for
programs that I use daily. Also tweaked application settings as well. If
there was an easy way to backup installed programs and settings (like if it
was all .conf files like in Linux/UNIX) then I would have no problem
formatting and just backing up those things. This is the case for a few
programs (like X-Chat) but not many.

I have another fresh 60GB drive that I am going to put into another computer
running a different OS, but I could put Windows on that to get something
booted, and then add the C drive now in and copy the personal files like
documents and email, but that still doesn't solve the applications, Windows
settings troubles.

So from what you see there is no way to fix this other than a clean install
of Windows? If there is, I'm up for giving anything a try.

Thanks again for the response.

-Mark