XP Stop code 0x0000007e - ata 100 to 133 Plz Help!

Do you have the right IDE cables in place? 40 pin or 80 pin?

If this has happened on 2 different boards, it's not your board. It could be that the hard drive is corrupt or that you have the wrong cable.

Try reinstalling Windows, it could be a windows installation problem causing it too.

Are you trying to plug into an onboard Highpoint controller, a promise controller? This is onboard or is it a PCI controller?

If it's onboard, you want to update your BIOS.
When you install Windows, at the very very beginning you have to hit F6 to install the controller drivers, otherwise it will never work.
But my understanding is that you're trying to load Windows?
Something isn't right, I haven't looked up your error yet either. I'll do that and see if I find anything useful on it.

Not sure what type of controller it is... the mobo has nforce 4 so I think its Nvidia.. not sure if that is what you are asking.

Installing the drivers is on my list to do tonight but I tried that last night by booting the XP cd but wasn't offered to install the raid drivers.


XP is already installed so I would like to stay away from trying to install it again and losing data. But if I can't get it going tonight then that is exactly what I'm going to do. I don't want to spend the rest of the week on this... I have games to play!!

What's the model of your motherboard? I'll check to see if it has an onboard raid controller that needs seperate drivers.

When you install Windows, you have to hit F6 within the first 30 seconds to "Install 3rd Party RAID Drivers" or something to that effect. It doesn't prompt you, you have to be aware that it's an option.

It sounds like you need drivers to make the controller work.

Now, did you upgrade the motherboard and keep your original install of Windows or did you reinstall from scratch? That would cause a problem.

If you can, explain step by step how things happened.
Ie - Installed motherboard, loaded windows, changed motherboard, didn't reload windows, etc.

Last night I installed XP from scratch and it worked fine without installing the RAID drivers (onto another maxtor drive which has had the same problem in the past).

Before I did this I was troubleshooting and tried turning off the ACPI and also refreshing the ESCD as someone posted before. Disabling ACPI put the computer into a reboot loop without even making it to the windows screen (the moving bar at the bottom).

While in safe mode I did notice that in Device Manager under the IDE/ATAPI section I had 3 Primary IDE controllers and 3 Secondary IDE controller plus 3 of something (I don't remember... I am at work now). Irregardless... I tried to remove all three of each but it would only remove two of each and I would assume that this is because the drives were active on the ones that wouldn't delete. I was deleting them so that I could reboot and reinstall drivers. This did not work.

Next I will try actually updating the drivers from within Device Manager properties tab for each. I am sure this will work and if not then I'm giving up and will start installing all my apps onto the other drive that I installed xp on last night.


The mobo I have is a DFI Lanparty Ultra-D ... url:

http://www.dfi.com.tw/Product/xx_p [...] LP&SITE=NA

Whenever you upgrade a motherboard, you have to reinstall Windows.. it's almost guarenteed.

Windows installs itself to the HAL (Hardware Layer) of the motherboard. When you change that, Windows becomes unstable.

Back with Windows 95 and 98, there was a trick that you'd delete an Enum key out of the registry which effectively removed information about the motherboard. Then you could put a new board in and when Windows loaded, it would recreate that registry key.

Then again, in 98/98, if you just put a new mobo in, most of the time it worked fine anyhow.

But yeah, the reinstall is necessary when changing out your motherboard.. it's like changing out the core of the entire system. Everything is built around it.