New build problems

ganesh · 3 Apr 2007 at 18:13

Hello chaps, i have recently put together a new system of mine.

c2d 6600
asus p5n-e sli
8800gts
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB
2 older hard drives - 120gb hitachi IDE and 250gb maxtor sata 1
geil 2gb pc 6400c4 ultra low latency
Seasonic m12 600w

It all went together well, however upon booting and trying to install windows on the new drive i could not, it kept on telling me that it needed to install system files on the ide drive. To get around this quickly i just unplugged the ide drive.

So continuing with installation i'm using the standard nvidia sata/raid drivers from the asus cd. I can see both my sata drives and i install windows on a partition on the seagate. After installation has finished and the computer reboots into windows i am faced with a stop error code at the loading bar.

This is an 0x0000007b code, with a few reference codes following.

I had a look on microsoft knowledge base and it seems to be some kind of hard drive driver incompatibility.

This article has the exact same error codes as i get
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314082/en-us

But doesn't seem to be relevant as i'm trying a fresh install on a new drive.

Can anyone please help me? I'm tearing my hair out.

Edit

After rebooting with only the new drive plugged in i get this error code
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297185/en-us

Which doesn't really apply at all. Seems like it is a prob with the new drive. I'll have to experiment somewhat.

sidethink · 16 Apr 2007 at 20:27

Did you ever solve this one? Experiencing a similar problem now with a similar build and setup.

Firegod · 17 Apr 2007 at 16:19

If you can somehow get into Windows, be it, on one of the old IDE drives just so you can create a slipstreamed SP2 cd then I'd try that.

Everytime I do a fresh install I use the slipstream CD and it picks up my SATA drives fine, don't have to load any 3rd-party drivers etc for it to work.

Perhaps try doing that and then installing Windows from the new CD.

Cupra · 17 Apr 2007 at 19:06

do you have jmicron disabled (its a raid controler)
i couldnt boot with it tbh... also check you have your sata cards set as ide

sidethink · 18 Apr 2007 at 15:20

I finally traced this issue to an out of date SATA RAID driver loaded from the Gigabyte CD.

To clarify, I experienced the following symptoms:

Created RAID0 stripe and went through the initial Vista install, upon reboot I got the BSOD 0x0000007b.

I then tried the same exercise with a Windows XP install but this borked even sooner during the bluescreen installation phase.

All I had to do was download the most up to date SATA RAID driver from the Gigabyte website and install that during the Vista pre-install settings phase - worked like a charm - and you can now load drivers from USB sticks rather than having to dig out an old floppy and drive.

I should have known much better than to trust the CD that came with the motherboard and should have gone straight to the website. I would recommend generally that before anyone commences a build leading to a new OS install, that you acquire up to date suitable drivers rather than trying the baseline drivers and causing yourself a headache. Basically, chuck the bloody CD in the bin and download all of the apps and driver needed fresh.

Was really kicking myself cos though this was my first build in a long time, I used to work in the trade and this type of issue shouldn't have taken me three hours to figure out.