STOP: 0x0000007B

[Chipmunk]

Having upgraded my system to 64 bit i decided to buy and install Windows
Vista.

date: 13 April 2008, 10:49:00
OS: Microsoft Windows Vista Home basic
System Man: ASUSTek Computer Inc
Sys Model: M2NSLI
BIOS:
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core
L1 Data Cache: 64Kb
L1 Inst Cache: 64Kb
L2 Cache: 1024Kb
Family Model: S
MMX: Yes
E MMX 3DNow: Yes Extended 3DNc
Mem: 2048MB RAM

Apart from the problems of software compatibility ie. Much of the software I
use will not run on it and the blurry fonts even with anti alias off it's
been reasonably stable. Currently I wish I had bought 64bit XP as the
problems, limitations and 'auto' features in Vista are very irritating and
hard to turn off. A few days ago I decided to increase the size of the
partition containing Vista, since then it has refused to boot up at all,
either to normal or safe mode. The boot process begins then a blue screen is
displayed with the following text:

'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 drive controllers. Check your hard drive to make sure it is properly
configured, and terminated. Run CHKDSK /F to check for hard drive corruption,
and the restart your computer.

Technical information:
*** STOP: 0x0000007B (0xFFFFFA60005AF900, 0xFFFFFFFFC0000034,
0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000)'

I have run an up to date virus checker over the partition, rebuilt the
partition table, reinstalled the MBR, de fragmented the entire disk, run
DSKCHK /F, tried the rescue from the CD, tried re-installing drivers,
searched the knowledge base and many community forums, all without locating a
solution.

 

[Mark H]

Your system specs are great, but you didn't provide the key information:
Drives

0x0000007B means "INACCESIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE"
This Stop message, also known as Stop 0x7B, indicates that Windows lost
access to the system partition during the startup process.This error always
occurs while the system is starting and cannot be debugged because it
generally occurs before the operating system has loaded the debugger.

Could be a needed 64-bit driver is not installed, or is not compatible for
the booting hard drive.

The secondary information means:
0xFFFFFA60005AF900 - Address of a Unicode string data structure representing
the Advanced RISC Computing (ARC) specification name of the device from
which the startup was being attempted.
0xFFFFFFFFC0000034 - Pointer to ARC name string in memory.


When you install, make sure you do not have any unneeded peripheral devices
attached: Printer, Flash Drives, USB connections. Install these after Vista
is completed. If you have a SCSI drive, try disabling sync negotiation in
the BIOS. If you have a mixture of IDE and SATA drives, try removing all but
the drive you want to install Vista on.

Some other help: (Note each case is a driver issue.)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928632
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922976
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/935806

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Having upgraded my system to 64 bit i decided to buy and install Windows
Vista.

Apart from the problems of software compatibility ie. Much of the software
I
use will not run on it and the blurry fonts even with anti alias off it's
been reasonably stable.

In addition to Chipmunk's excellent advice, you can address the blurriness
with the Windows Clear Type Tuner at:
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/ClearType/tuner/tune.aspx

As far as software compatibility goes, I don't know what programs you are
describing but in general Vista x64 runs most existing programs fine. For
others you can install in XP compatibility mode, obtain updates, etc. If
worst comes to worst you can always run some things in a virtual machine
using VPC. That requires a copy of Windows to use in the guest vm but you
may already have a spare copy of XP you can use for that. XP Pro x64 does
not have as good 64bit driver support as Vista x64 and I doubt it would have
been a good choice.