Install Problem XP Professional

[Guest]

Hello all out there,

I have just bought the components for my new computer (early Christmas
gift!). I have an Asus P5GD1 motherboard, P4 3.0E, a PCI-Express video card
from ATI, 512MB of PC3200 RAM, and a Western Digital 160GB Hard Drive. The
hard drive is recognized by the BIOS as being 160GB. During the
installation, after Windows has copied all it's files and it is getting ready
for the actual set up, I get the following error:

A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage
to your computer.

If this is the first time you've seen this stop error screen, restart your
computer. If this screen appears again, follow these steps:

Check for viruses on your computer. Remove any newly installed hard drives
or hard controllers. Check your hard drive to make sure its properly
configured and terminated, Run CHKDSK /F to check for hard drive corruption,
and then
restart your computer.

Technical information:
***STOP: 0X0000007B (0XF898563C, 0XC0000034, 0X00000000, 0X00000000)

I've hooked up this new hard drive (as a slave) on another system that has
XP running and completely formatted it. In that computer, the hard drive was
only 153,000 MB (and not 160,000 when I went to partition it). I know that
1GB is 1024MB, so that isn't the problem, because XP saw the drive as being
149GB. The BIOS on this computer is old (PIII, and was only seen as 137GB).
After this formatting, I still got the error message when I went to install
XP in the new system. What could the problem be? Is it the hard drive
controller on the motherboard, or is it the hard drive faulty? Someone
please help!

Thanks,

Clive P.

 

[Dave Patrick]

If your drive controller is not natively supported then you'll want to boot
the Windows XP CD-Rom. Then *F6* very early and very important (at setup is
inspecting your system) in the setup to prevent drive controller detection,
and select S to specify additional drivers. Then later you'll be prompted to
insert the manufacturer supplied Windows XP driver for your drive controller
in drive "A"

If you wait and then S to specify additional drivers, then it may be too
late as Windows XP Setup at this point may have already assigned the
resources your drive's controller is wanting to use.

When you get to the point, delete the existing NTFS and or other partitions
found. After you delete the partition(s) abort the install, then again
restart the pc booting the CD-Rom or setup disks to avoid unexpected drive
letter assignments with your new install.

Be sure to apply SP2 or at least these to your new install before connecting
to any network.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-043.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-049.mspx

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| Hello all out there,
|
| I have just bought the components for my new computer (early Christmas
| gift!). I have an Asus P5GD1 motherboard, P4 3.0E, a PCI-Express video
card
| from ATI, 512MB of PC3200 RAM, and a Western Digital 160GB Hard Drive.
The
| hard drive is recognized by the BIOS as being 160GB. During the
| installation, after Windows has copied all it's files and it is getting
ready
| for the actual set up, I get the following error:
|
| A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent
damage
| to your computer.
|
| If this is the first time you've seen this stop error screen, restart your
| computer. If this screen appears again, follow these steps:
|
| Check for viruses on your computer. Remove any newly installed hard drives
| or hard controllers. Check your hard drive to make sure its properly
| configured and terminated, Run CHKDSK /F to check for hard drive
corruption,
| and then
| restart your computer.
|
| Technical information:
| ***STOP: 0X0000007B (0XF898563C, 0XC0000034, 0X00000000, 0X00000000)
|
| I've hooked up this new hard drive (as a slave) on another system that has
| XP running and completely formatted it. In that computer, the hard drive
was
| only 153,000 MB (and not 160,000 when I went to partition it). I know
that
| 1GB is 1024MB, so that isn't the problem, because XP saw the drive as
being
| 149GB. The BIOS on this computer is old (PIII, and was only seen as
137GB).
| After this formatting, I still got the error message when I went to
install
| XP in the new system. What could the problem be? Is it the hard drive
| controller on the motherboard, or is it the hard drive faulty? Someone
| please help!
|
| Thanks,
|
| Clive P.

 

[Guest]

The board has only a 137gb limitation for the wdc drive,download the DOS
version of data lifeguard from wdc,boot to the DOS version,partition the
drive
to or under 137gb,then shutdown computer,on restart,boot to xp cd,install xp.
When xp is up and running,go to run,type:diskmgmt.msc In msc R.click on the
unallocated disk space,then the partition wizard will open and let you format
or repartition the left over space.

 

[Guest]

Hi Dave,

The motherboard did not come with a bootable disk. According to the manual,
I should just be able to run the XP install. Some funny things did happen
during assembly. When I put the CD-ROM slave to the hard drive on the
Primary IDE, the hard drive was not recognized. I can only see the hard
drive when it is on the Pri_IDE by itself, and the CD-ROM is on the Pri_RAID,
running in IDE mode (essentially behaving like a secondary IDE). However,
when I did press F6 during the install and got the screen you were refering
to, it did say that Windows was confused about the mass storage devices on
the computer. Is this a general message, or is it specific?

Thanks for the help.

Clive P.

 

[Guest]

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for the help, but I knew what the problem was with the old computer.
My question was pertaining to the new one and the install of XP. The new
motherboard supports the hard drive just fine.

Clive P.

 

[Dave Patrick]

It's more of a general message. From what I read at the asus site you may
need to prepare the controller driver to floppy so that you can supply them
as I outlined earlier. Depending on how you connect your drives you may also
need to enter bios and configure accordingly.

http://www.asus.com/support/faq/faqmodel.aspx?ModelName=P5GD1

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| Hi Dave,
|
| The motherboard did not come with a bootable disk. According to the
manual,
| I should just be able to run the XP install. Some funny things did happen
| during assembly. When I put the CD-ROM slave to the hard drive on the
| Primary IDE, the hard drive was not recognized. I can only see the hard
| drive when it is on the Pri_IDE by itself, and the CD-ROM is on the
Pri_RAID,
| running in IDE mode (essentially behaving like a secondary IDE). However,
| when I did press F6 during the install and got the screen you were
refering
| to, it did say that Windows was confused about the mass storage devices on
| the computer. Is this a general message, or is it specific?
|
| Thanks for the help.
|
| Clive P.