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Windows XP 64-bit, ASUS P5WD2 Premium, Western Digital Raptors
I am looking for some help for installing Windows XP 64-bit on a new system I have built. I am not an expert, at building new PCs, nor am I a novice. I have built PCs in the past but this is my first experience with a RAID system.
The problem is when installing Windows XP 64-bit it always goes to blue screen when it gets to the install part of ‘Starting windows..’. The blue screen has “STOP 0x0000007B…” error which I believe is related to the device driver.
I install the drivers for the RAID system via the ‘F6’ key at the start of the windows installation.
My systems components are as follows:
ASUS P5WD2 Premium board
Pentium D 840
2 GB ram
2 Western Digital Raptor (10,000rpm) 75 Gig hard drives
2 optical drives
480W Power Supply
The Raptors are SATA, and I have them plugged in the SATA 0 and SATA 1 pin slots of the mother board. The optical drives are on the Secondary IDE pin slot of the motherboard and both optical drives are set as Slaves.
I have updated the motherboard bios, from ASUS and I have tried drivers, put on a floppy, both from ASUS and the latest from Intel. But every time no matter what I do I am getting the “STOP 0x0000007B…” error.
I have gone into the bios setup and followed the manufactories suggested setup steps, setting the SATA drives to raid then out side of the Bios, during setup up, ‘CTR-I’ to set up the RAID 0.
I have tried swapping power hookups to the drives along with trying different SATA pin connection combination on the mother board to the drives.
I have even tried removing the RAID configuration, via the setup and BIOS, and try to get Windows 64 to install on a single Drive, but still the same error.
Is there some procedure I need to follow to wipe the drives incase they got any bad boot sector data, before trying these different install setups?
At this point I am almost thinking it is a problem with Windows 64 bit and the raptor drives.
I would really like to exploit the potential of my 64 bit setup but at this point I am about ready to try Windows XP 32-bit just to get it working.
My only thoughts are something to do with the IDE setup and the optical drives. Though I do not see how that would affect anything.
Any help or suggestions would greatly be appreciated.
The problem is when installing Windows XP 64-bit it always goes to blue screen when it gets to the install part of ‘Starting windows..’. The blue screen has “STOP 0x0000007B…” error which I believe is related to the device driver.
I install the drivers for the RAID system via the ‘F6’ key at the start of the windows installation.
My systems components are as follows:
ASUS P5WD2 Premium board
Pentium D 840
2 GB ram
2 Western Digital Raptor (10,000rpm) 75 Gig hard drives
2 optical drives
480W Power Supply
The Raptors are SATA, and I have them plugged in the SATA 0 and SATA 1 pin slots of the mother board. The optical drives are on the Secondary IDE pin slot of the motherboard and both optical drives are set as Slaves.
I have updated the motherboard bios, from ASUS and I have tried drivers, put on a floppy, both from ASUS and the latest from Intel. But every time no matter what I do I am getting the “STOP 0x0000007B…” error.
I have gone into the bios setup and followed the manufactories suggested setup steps, setting the SATA drives to raid then out side of the Bios, during setup up, ‘CTR-I’ to set up the RAID 0.
I have tried swapping power hookups to the drives along with trying different SATA pin connection combination on the mother board to the drives.
I have even tried removing the RAID configuration, via the setup and BIOS, and try to get Windows 64 to install on a single Drive, but still the same error.
Is there some procedure I need to follow to wipe the drives incase they got any bad boot sector data, before trying these different install setups?
At this point I am almost thinking it is a problem with Windows 64 bit and the raptor drives.
I would really like to exploit the potential of my 64 bit setup but at this point I am about ready to try Windows XP 32-bit just to get it working.
My only thoughts are something to do with the IDE setup and the optical drives. Though I do not see how that would affect anything.
Any help or suggestions would greatly be appreciated.
Are the drivers you are installing windows xp 64-bit compatable? Usaully a bad HDD or bad device drivers will cause this stop message.
I have seen xp x64 on a raptor 74 gig... So I know its possible o.O, the problem might be due to your motherboard's chipset.
Have you tried single raptor, and dont hit F6 during startup?
Also might want to ask why use 64? As of now the performance gains are minimial...
http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NzY1LDI=
Also the trouble you are having is just "scratching the surface" :) ...
So if there is a deadline of any type, i'd probaly go back to the good ol 32 bit operating system.
Have you tried single raptor, and dont hit F6 during startup?
Also might want to ask why use 64? As of now the performance gains are minimial...
http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NzY1LDI=
Also the trouble you are having is just "scratching the surface" :) ...
So if there is a deadline of any type, i'd probaly go back to the good ol 32 bit operating system.
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"Are the drivers you are installing windows xp 64-bit compatable? " Well the drivers, both from Intel and ASUS have an option for ICR7 64-bit and that is the driver I select to install to the floppy. So I would hope at least intel is putting out 'Windows xp 64-bit comatable' drivers.
"Have you tried single raptor, and dont hit F6 during startup?"
Yes see my orginal post "I have even tried removing the RAID configuration, via the setup and BIOS, and try to get Windows 64 to install on a single Drive, but still the same error."
One other note, the Windows XP Pro 64-bit OS I bought, I noticed on the packaging, something to the effect, "This is an OEM version of Windows OS and should only be included with the hardware you purchased". But I bougth this OS from a site as an stand alone software. I did not know it was going to be OEM. My concern is that with Microsoft tightening up there OS distribution, maybe this OEM version is tied to some particular hardware or hardware combination that it does not see on my system.
"Have you tried single raptor, and dont hit F6 during startup?"
Yes see my orginal post "I have even tried removing the RAID configuration, via the setup and BIOS, and try to get Windows 64 to install on a single Drive, but still the same error."
One other note, the Windows XP Pro 64-bit OS I bought, I noticed on the packaging, something to the effect, "This is an OEM version of Windows OS and should only be included with the hardware you purchased". But I bougth this OS from a site as an stand alone software. I did not know it was going to be OEM. My concern is that with Microsoft tightening up there OS distribution, maybe this OEM version is tied to some particular hardware or hardware combination that it does not see on my system.
ASKER
PSS, the chipset on the P5WD2 is Intel's 955 series.
ASKER
OK guess I have to give myself the points.
If all else fails call the manufactorier, in this case ASUS.
The problem was I had the optical drives contected to the Secondary EIDE when in fact on the P5WD2 one needs to connect the optical or boot drive to the Primary IDE, which is a blue connector to the side of board. It turns out that if one wants to use the EIDE connections you have to install the appropriate drivers at the F6 option for the optical drive that is going to be the windows install disk. The blue IDE does not need this driver thusly it can be used to install an OS to a virgin system.
Hope this helps any future ASUS motherboard users.
If all else fails call the manufactorier, in this case ASUS.
The problem was I had the optical drives contected to the Secondary EIDE when in fact on the P5WD2 one needs to connect the optical or boot drive to the Primary IDE, which is a blue connector to the side of board. It turns out that if one wants to use the EIDE connections you have to install the appropriate drivers at the F6 option for the optical drive that is going to be the windows install disk. The blue IDE does not need this driver thusly it can be used to install an OS to a virgin system.
Hope this helps any future ASUS motherboard users.
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