silverkniveshotmail.'s Journal: Fuck

update: exchanged for a new motherboard and everything is okay so far.


Here's how windows XP instalation greets me:

A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage
do your computer.

If this is the first time you've seen this stop error screen,
restart your computer . If this screen appears again, follow
these stops:

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 hrd drive corruption, and then
restart your computer.

Technical Information:

*** STOP: 0X0000007B (OXF7934524, 0XC0000034, 0X00000000, 0X00000000)

I have a dated Athlon XP 1800+ with 512MB RAM. I just got a new motherboard(VIA KM400 + 8237 chipset), after the old one died about a year ago. I have removed everything that is not required, disabled all integrated components except for IDE, disabled SATA (which i thought was the original problem) and have taken out my 120gig SATA drive for an old IDE 40gig WD caviar, I've tried more things than I can think of. I get the same error no matter what. I get the same error if I don't have anything but the CD-ROM attached, I've tried different cables, I've tried different combinations of which drive (out of the CDROM and HD) were slave master or IDE 0 or 1.

If anyone knows anything about this i would be extremely greatful.

Re:dear god

[silverkniveshotmail.]

New motherboard. seems to be a bad IDE controler. check the other comment I made.
Most annoying part about this is how little I like swapping motherboards.

motherboard? memory?

[NFLFan]

I just got a new Dell that had a similar problem. If the thing sat cold for an hour or so I would get a very similar message when I turned it on. At first I did not think too much of it but eventually I realized I could re-produce it. I ran memtest86 which kept giving me errors for test #5. Called Dell tech support and they were not too helpful; they kept telling me it was software related, spy-ware/ad-ware/other sorts of mal-ware, and refused to recognise the memtest86 tests. After a few days of back

Re:motherboard? memory?

[silverkniveshotmail.]

Thanks for responding, memtest was a good idea, and I'm definatly going to keep it handy in the future along with my other 'important' CDs. The memory tested fine, and i was starting to just curse microsoft for being lame and everything, but realized I hadn't even bothered trying another OS, and since i'd been wanting to play with it for a while anyway i downloaded ubuntu and it halts everytime at 86% of "detecting hardware to find CD-ROM drives" I looked through the different views and found it stopped at: