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| Thread ID: 58649 | 2005-06-07 23:08:00 | My Dream Machine doesn't like Window XP | ahd8888 (184) | Press F1 |
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| 361979 | 2005-12-02 20:13:00 | I got the same motherboard (P5WD2) and had the very same problem. Finally I solved it yesterday! Here is the solution that worked for me: There are 3 IDE slots on the motherboard. 2 red ones (groubed together) and 1 blue, at the boarder of the motherboard. Make sure you connect your optical drives (CDROM, DVD) to that blue (!) connecter and use the IDE cable with the blue connecter at one side. Make sure you have the boot CD-Drive set as master (jumpers) and connected to the gray cable connector. Do not use the cable which is labeled "CD Drives", which does not have a blue connector! May be this works already, if not step into the BIOS and configure the IDE-Typ of your optical drives to [CD-ROM] (or something like this). By default they are set to [AUTO]. The Problem is that windows XP setup thinks that your CD-ROM drives are harddisk drives (for some reason it seems it cannot determine this) and obviously you cannot install XP onto your optical drive... Good luck! I can confirm that this is the solution. Nice find and thanks! Specs: P5WD2 P4 3.6 2X WD SATAII 250G 2Gig DDR2 6800GT |
evilnate (8296) | ||
| 361980 | 2005-12-05 05:59:00 | It can install win 98 and ME, surely (1) it doesn't need a SATA driver (2) Bios set correctly (3) Nothing wrong with the HDD No funny beep sound, surely (1) all connection are correct (2) no faulty part Window Xp installation disc is new, straight out of the package, surely (1) nothing wrong with the disc what else it could happen? :help: WINXP uses a totaly differnet method of acssesing hardware from 98/ME. It NEEDS a driver to provide DIRECT access to hardware. Get you driver for the SATA controller and do the F6 during install. |
ughnz (8297) | ||
| 361981 | 2005-12-09 01:30:00 | Mengelha, you are correct . I also had this issue with an Asus P5LD2 mobo and solved it with your instructions - except that I left "primary ide" on AUTO in the Bios and it worked fine . I chalk this up to both personal error as well as poor instructions from Asus . The manual says you can hook up a cd or dvd to the EIDE connectors and dont specify explicitly that you can have complications doing that . I had it connected there originally and everything was working fine for a while -- until I wanted to do a fresh Windows installation -- then I got the STOP: 0x7b error . Also ASUS including that darn cable labeled "cd-rom" - I of course used it, not looking at the other directions for hooking up the IDE connector that says to only use those with colored connectors . Again no explicit explanation in the manual . Thanks to all for this discussion! I still have a few hairs left on my head because of it . |
spleek (8298) | ||
| 361982 | 2005-12-23 08:03:00 | Thanks for the info (would be nice if ASUS would have this info somewhere). I have been pulling my hair out for the last 5 hours trying to get past the damn error. Merry Christmas |
Oriongps (8299) | ||
| 361983 | 2006-03-05 19:00:00 | Hi, all Computer Masters "A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to yr computer . If this is the first time u've been this stop error screen, restart yr computer . If this screen appears again, follow these steps: Check for viruses on yr computer . Remove any newly installed hard drives or hard drives controllers . Check yr hard drive to make sure it is properly configured and terminated . Run CHKDSK /F to check for hard drive corruption, and then restart yr computer . Techinical Information : Stop : 0x0000007B (0xF7C8263C,0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)" So I tried to do a chkdsk but it recommended to do a scandisk . Scandisk didn't find anything wrong with the hard drive . Please help . Thank you in advance . :( If you are doing a fresh install of XP . . . Go into BIOS first under Onboard IDE Operation Mode and change Enhanced MODE to Compatible MODE . -SAVE- REBOOT with your windows XP disk . You should be good to go for install, NO BSD . Note: Compat mode has to be set in BIOS if you also want to use other Boot-CD DOS utis like PartitionMAGIC, or SEAGATE HD utils from CD . HOPE THIS HELPS |
Jonee5 (8300) | ||
| 361984 | 2006-03-06 14:04:00 | Ok, so I did what was posted earlier on about setting the CD cable to the blue connector on the edge rather than the red, and then I did the detect it as "CD-ROM", and I no longer get the "STOP 0x0000007B" error! Instead, I get yet ANOTHER Blue Screen, giving me a "STOP 0x00000050" error. I don't remember the error message, but it was something about PAGED_FILE_IN_NON_PAGED_AREA or something. Please help me. This is the first computer that I've built (with a little help from my friends), and I'd really like to get it up and running. SYSTEM SPECS: Asus P5WD2 Premium mobo Intel Pentium D 930 CPU (3.0 GHz) eVGA nVidia geForce 6800 GS Creative X-Fi Platinum soundcard Antec TruePower 2.0 550W PSU Memorex Dual-Layer DVD Burner Western Digital Caviar 250gb SATA hard drive Corsair XMS-2 1 GB DDR2-800 RAM |
Ryouba (8301) | ||
| 361985 | 2006-03-06 19:37:00 | probably "PAGE_FAULT_IN_NON_PAGED_AREA" usually cause by a bad harddrive (check the cable for that too) or by bad ram (give memtest (http://www.memtest.org/) a shot) |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 361986 | 2006-03-06 22:42:00 | Funny it only seems the Intel boards are affected. USER ERROR USER ERROR: You are not qualified to work on your own computer.....00000000EoE They should all come with a manuel, maybe this should be studied fully before you start poking plugs into sockets. |
Rob99 (151) | ||
| 361987 | 2006-03-07 03:18:00 | I have had a machine built for me recently based on an Asus P5WD2 Premium mobo. I asked for 3 hdds to be installed - 1 for OS + software and 2 Seagate 250 SATAII drives mirrored in a RAID Setup for critical data. The builder (very experienced) spent a considerable amount of time trying to figure out how to sucessfully install XP Home. For some time they thought they had a faulty mobo but they persisted. I didn't enquire about the details of how they succeded but I understand it was to do with which controller(s) were used for which drives. It seems the Asus documentation was not very helpful. | MPG (8302) | ||
| 361988 | 2006-03-07 14:41:00 | Ok, so, most of the problem has been taken care of. The STOP 0x00000050 was just a RAM issue, but that's taken care of, too. BIOS is up to date, can't seem to upload drivers correctly. Each time we try the F6 during Windows Setup, the setup demands a manufacturer's floppy. Anyways, the main problem is that now Windows XP Pro w/ SP2's setup prog is not recognizing the SATA drive being connected. Everywhere I read, and even in the manual, leads me to believe that one SATA-II drive should install just fine, but I don't understand why Windows Setup is saying that there are no hard drives present. We've tried moving the SATA cable to the different ports, but most of them have no success, while other ones will go to the "Partition" screen. When you select to create a new partition and format, the format bar goes to about 20%, and then the screen says "Windows cannot format this HDD". At first, I though the Hard Drive was bad, but we hooked it up to my friend's computer, and it was recognized just fine. This is day three of this build, and hopefully someone could help me out?? Thanks! ;) |
Ryouba (8301) | ||
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