Service Packs cause error INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE

[Keefa]

Hi there.

I recently bought myself a new case/mainboard: a Shuttle SN41g2. It is an
NVIDIA chipset, with integrated video and audio in a SFF m/board. I chucked
my old drives, memory, CPU in there, did a fresh install of Win2K and
everything seemed fine. However, when I came to apply SP4, the system
rebooted and I was faced with the dreaded:

stop 0x0000007b INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE

I repaired Windows and tried SP3. Then SP2. Then SP1. All them caused the
same error. I did a fresh install and tried SP1. Then SP2. Then... You get
the idea. Nothing worked. So, currently I am running Windows 2000 with no
service pack which is slightly concerning giving the number of security
issues Microsoft have had since the initial Win2K release.

Has anyone any idea what I can do? I've checked all the Microsoft KBs, and
while a lot them of describe a similar problem, nothing specifically
addresses mine. Does anyone even know what's causing it? I've read that it
could be a problem with the Plug-n-play ID for the IDE chipset, but I have
no evidence this is what my problem is really.

Thanks,

Keith Railton.

 

[disgruntled]

Hi there.

I recently bought myself a new case/mainboard: a Shuttle SN41g2. It is an
NVIDIA chipset, with integrated video and audio in a SFF m/board. I chucked
my old drives, memory, CPU in there, did a fresh install of Win2K and
everything seemed fine. However, when I came to apply SP4, the system
rebooted and I was faced with the dreaded:

stop 0x0000007b INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE

I repaired Windows and tried SP3. Then SP2. Then SP1. All them caused the
same error. I did a fresh install and tried SP1. Then SP2. Then... You get
the idea. Nothing worked. So, currently I am running Windows 2000 with no
service pack which is slightly concerning giving the number of security
issues Microsoft have had since the initial Win2K release.

Has anyone any idea what I can do? I've checked all the Microsoft KBs, and
while a lot them of describe a similar problem, nothing specifically
addresses mine. Does anyone even know what's causing it? I've read that it
could be a problem with the Plug-n-play ID for the IDE chipset, but I have
no evidence this is what my problem is really.

Thanks,

Keith Railton.

I have the same problem with my Biostar M7NCD board with nvidia
chipset...so far Biostar says this appears to be an uncommon problem...
disgruntled

 

[chris haywood]

greetings kieth old buddy in horror!@#$%^*&%$#
YOU ARE SCREWED BIG MAN!
you should read my horror story posted at this site as a
reply actually to somebody else with the same problem....
there is no fix..

 

[Guest]

Hi,
I got the same error when I first tried to run a service
pack with Win2000. The problem was that the HDD was cabled
as a 'slave', with a CD drive as master. This works fine
for Win2K with no updates but when I installed SP3, the PC
failed to boot, giving the 'INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE'
error.
I changed the HDD from 'slave' to 'master' and it booted
next time. I've still never seen this on the MS website.

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