After Applying SP4 Network, to Pro Machine = STOP Error

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Hello.

Did a clean install of W2K Pro on an old Compaq machine. It did its thing,
then reboot fine. Then installed SP4 Network Install, and it did its thing,
reboot, then I get a STOP 0x7b Inaccessible Boot Device.

Anyone know what might be causing this. The Machine is an older Compaq
Presario 5838 with a Athalon SLOT CPU. After the fresh install of W2k Pro, I
went right to the SP4. Didn't install any drivers or anything like Chipset
Drivers.

It’s an AMD 751 Chipset with a Belkin network card as well. If you have any
ideas, please help!!

Thanks
 
You might want to try an integrated install.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows200...spdeploy.htm#the_integrated_installation_fmay

You didn't mention the drive controller (possibly SCSI, or ultra DMA, or
ATA100, or raid, or serial ATA), but you may need to boot the Windows 2000
setup disks or CD-Rom and *F6* very early and very important (at setup is
inspecting your system) in the setup to prevent drive controller detection,
and select S to specify additional drivers. Then later you'll be prompted to
insert the manufacturer supplied Windows 2000 driver for your drive's
controller in drive "A"

If you wait and then S to specify additional drivers, then it may be too
late as Windows 2000 Setup at this point may have already assigned the
resources your drive's controller is wanting to use.

You can start Recovery Console and from a command prompt change to the
%SystemRoot%$NtServicePackuninstall$\spuninst
directory. Then issue the command
batch SPuninst.bat

The next step is to start in 'Safe Mode' and uninstall the SP again from
Control Panel|Add/Remove to finish the uninstall.

To start the Recovery Console, start the computer from the Windows 2000
Setup CD or the Windows 2000 Setup floppy disks. If you do not have Setup
floppy disks and your computer cannot start from the Windows 2000 Setup CD,
use another Windows 2000-based computer to create the Setup floppy disks.
Press ENTER at the "Setup Notification" screen. Press R to repair a Windows
2000 installation, and then press C to use the Recovery Console. The
Recovery Console then prompts you for the administrator password. If you do
not have the correct password, Recovery Console does not allow access to the
computer. If an incorrect password is entered three times, the Recovery
Console quits and restarts the computer. Note If the registry is corrupted
or missing or no valid installations are found, the Recovery Console starts
in the root of the startup volume without requiring a password. You cannot
access any folders, but you can carry out commands such as chkdsk, fixboot,
and fixmbr for limited disk repairs. Once the password has been validated,
you have full access to the Recovery Console, but limited access to the hard
disk. You can only access the following folders on your computer: drive
root, %systemroot% or %windir%

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| Hello.
|
| Did a clean install of W2K Pro on an old Compaq machine. It did its
thing,
| then reboot fine. Then installed SP4 Network Install, and it did its
thing,
| reboot, then I get a STOP 0x7b Inaccessible Boot Device.
|
| Anyone know what might be causing this. The Machine is an older Compaq
| Presario 5838 with a Athalon SLOT CPU. After the fresh install of W2k
Pro, I
| went right to the SP4. Didn't install any drivers or anything like
Chipset
| Drivers.
|
| It's an AMD 751 Chipset with a Belkin network card as well. If you have
any
| ideas, please help!!
|
| Thanks
|
 
Thanks Dave for the tips.

Well it’s a Presario and I believe the DMA controller is DMA66. It was
bought in Nov99, so I think it’s a DMA66? The ED Drive I bought is DMA100
though. It is WD200BB, an OEM Drive. Is there a specific setting in the
Presario Bios I need to change the DMA mode to? Right now I think its set to
PIO4.

And what I'm wondering, is why does SP4 change the boot.ini, or the OS
Loader?

Hmmmm.... I think to make this a wee bit easier, is to Remove the NIC card;
Install W2k Pro CD Slipstreamed with SP4; and select FAT32. How about NTFS?

Any opinions/comments welcome!


Thanks


Dave Patrick said:
You might want to try an integrated install.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows200...spdeploy.htm#the_integrated_installation_fmay

You didn't mention the drive controller (possibly SCSI, or ultra DMA, or
ATA100, or raid, or serial ATA), but you may need to boot the Windows 2000
setup disks or CD-Rom and *F6* very early and very important (at setup is
inspecting your system) in the setup to prevent drive controller detection,
and select S to specify additional drivers. Then later you'll be prompted to
insert the manufacturer supplied Windows 2000 driver for your drive's
controller in drive "A"

If you wait and then S to specify additional drivers, then it may be too
late as Windows 2000 Setup at this point may have already assigned the
resources your drive's controller is wanting to use.

You can start Recovery Console and from a command prompt change to the
%SystemRoot%$NtServicePackuninstall$\spuninst
directory. Then issue the command
batch SPuninst.bat

The next step is to start in 'Safe Mode' and uninstall the SP again from
Control Panel|Add/Remove to finish the uninstall.

To start the Recovery Console, start the computer from the Windows 2000
Setup CD or the Windows 2000 Setup floppy disks. If you do not have Setup
floppy disks and your computer cannot start from the Windows 2000 Setup CD,
use another Windows 2000-based computer to create the Setup floppy disks.
Press ENTER at the "Setup Notification" screen. Press R to repair a Windows
2000 installation, and then press C to use the Recovery Console. The
Recovery Console then prompts you for the administrator password. If you do
not have the correct password, Recovery Console does not allow access to the
computer. If an incorrect password is entered three times, the Recovery
Console quits and restarts the computer. Note If the registry is corrupted
or missing or no valid installations are found, the Recovery Console starts
in the root of the startup volume without requiring a password. You cannot
access any folders, but you can carry out commands such as chkdsk, fixboot,
and fixmbr for limited disk repairs. Once the password has been validated,
you have full access to the Recovery Console, but limited access to the hard
disk. You can only access the following folders on your computer: drive
root, %systemroot% or %windir%

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| Hello.
|
| Did a clean install of W2K Pro on an old Compaq machine. It did its
thing,
| then reboot fine. Then installed SP4 Network Install, and it did its
thing,
| reboot, then I get a STOP 0x7b Inaccessible Boot Device.
|
| Anyone know what might be causing this. The Machine is an older Compaq
| Presario 5838 with a Athalon SLOT CPU. After the fresh install of W2k
Pro, I
| went right to the SP4. Didn't install any drivers or anything like
Chipset
| Drivers.
|
| It's an AMD 751 Chipset with a Belkin network card as well. If you have
any
| ideas, please help!!
|
| Thanks
|
Click to expand...
 
:
| Thanks Dave for the tips.
|
| Well it's a Presario and I believe the DMA controller is DMA66. It was
| bought in Nov99, so I think it's a DMA66? The ED Drive I bought is DMA100
| though. It is WD200BB, an OEM Drive. Is there a specific setting in the
| Presario Bios I need to change the DMA mode to? Right now I think its set
to
| PIO4.
* You'll probably need to consult your drive controller or mobo manual for
this info.


| And what I'm wondering, is why does SP4 change the boot.ini, or the OS
| Loader?
* Never heard of this one before. Post them both.


| Hmmmm.... I think to make this a wee bit easier, is to Remove the NIC
card;
* It won't hurt if you suspect it is a problem.


| Install W2k Pro CD Slipstreamed with SP4; and select FAT32. How about
NTFS?
* NTFS is the native file system of Windows 2000

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect
 
Hi Courtney
If your problem has yet not been resolved, I would like to try my bit. The
problem you are facing is because when sp4 was in the process of updating
your protected system files, something(may be antivirus) intervened as it may
have some handles open on some of them. Because of this there might have been
some file version mismatch between %systemroot%\system32 and
%systemroot%\system32\dllcache. Could you please let me know the whole stop
code along with the parameters in the parantheses and the file reported, if
any.
 
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