XP blue screen when boot, STOP 0x0000007B

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the182guy

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Hi all,

I've got a strange one for you today....

I have 4 or 5 year old Win XP Home Tiny desktop computer which is having trouble booting. Basically when booting up, right before the Win XP logo it reboots itself.

I have disconnected all IDE devices except for the master hard drive (plus disabled them in BIOS), I have tried a different hard drive in the machine that I know is working and has XP Pro installed. The same thing happens with this hard drive - reboots. This hard drive also has Ubuntu installed, and the machine happily boots Ubuntu to the normak desktop, but for some reason won't boot XP!

Also tried a third hard drive in this machine that is working with Win 2000 installed, again the same thing happens.

Next I tried the original hard drive in a working seperate machine which produces the same result again.

Also tried removing the RAM from the original machine and inserting a stick of working RAM from my other machine which again makes no difference.

All hard drives I've tried, have the correct jumper setting (primary master).

Also tried putting the Win XP disc in the drive and booting to that, I get to the menu and try to do a repair (R), but a few seconds after the repair begins the system reboots (this is using the original hard drive).

Also tried booting into safe mode, and last known good config on all drivers.

The hard drive is being detected in POST and in the BIOS which I have set as the first (and only) boot device.

When I turn off the auto reboot upon fatal error, I can see the blue screen of death with error code 'Stop 0x0000007B'.

So looks like the hard drive might be knackered, but there must be something else aswell because my two other working hard drives don't boot XP (only ubuntu).

The owner says he thinks it may have multiple viruses.

Also, there is something called BIOS guardian enabled in the BIOS settings, no change when disabling this except need to press SPACE to get past POST.

I don't know much about the spec, it's a family members computer:

Intel Celeron D processer (approx 2.1ghz)
Western Digital hard drive (model WD2000) 200gb
512mb single stick of RAM
Motherboard model numbers are d33007 p4m800t, 006VTA44 can't see manufacturer.
300W PSU
GeForce FX video card
PCI network card
PCI TV card
Firewire + USB
Optical and floppy drives (all disconnected)
Multi memory card reader (tried disconnecting this)


I'd really appreciate some help on this, thanks in advance.
 
The reason why other hard drives with operating systems installed on them from another computer reboots on you is because of the different hardware. Most likely you have a driver issue and not malware/viruses. Unhook all hard drive except for yours that has windows on it that was installed while inside your computer. If it still gives you the blue screen, getting the numbers after the stop code will help some, should be sets of numbers with comma's between them.
 
Thanks for the replies.

Finally got it working by putting a new install of XP on the same partition without removing the old one. All data recovered and just deleted the old Windows folder.
 
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