I have an old PC with an Asus A7A266 (rev 1.10) motherboard, and the motherboard has been physically damaged with scratches on the PCB itself. The PC won't power up, even as far as the first BIOS screen.
I've taken out its IDE hard drive (a Hitachi Deskstar), and put the hard drive into the case of a 'new' PC with an Asus K8V-SE Deluxe motherboard instead. The K8V-SE PC works fine with its own hard drive (an SATA one), but I need to use the Hitachi IDE drive.
Windows won't boot - it gives the error "STOP: 0x0000007B (0xBA4C3528, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000)" with the accompanying help "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 then restart your computer".
The K8V-SE has two hard drive controllers on it - the two regular IDE channels and a Promise RAID controller too - which I set in the BIOS to work in "Onboard IDE Operate Mode" instead of "RAID Mode". Windows tries to boot and produces the same error whichever controller that the drive is connected to.
I got as far as reading the MS KB article at
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314082/ about the 0x000007B error, but really don't know what it's telling me that I should do - I don't know what kind of hard drive controller either motherboard has, and can't follow its best advice of using the old motherboard in the new PC because it's the motherboard that is damaged.
I can read the Deskstar disc from a third, unrelated PC - and in fact created a copy of the data on the disc before trying to move it from old to new PC in case something went wrong. If I need to modify files on the Deskstar disc to get it working in the new PC, therefore I can, but I don't know what I'm supposed to be modifying.
It's sounding like I may have to install Windows afresh, but I'd really like to avoid that if possible - the PC is a signwriter's and it's loaded with lots of printer drivers and graphics applications that would take ages to replicate. We've data backups, but not a similar motherboard to use the disc on. We'd be happy to buy a replacement A7A266 motherboard, but of course, where does one get such an old board from?!
Does anyone have any advice?
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