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Hockeykid
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Hey everyone, I am pretty new to building computers, I just built my first today and am having some problems. Everything in the PC is new except for the hard drive, this is because it already has Windows XP installed on it. When I try booting up the PC normally I get a blue screen that has a stop message saying "STOP: 0X0000007E" (That's not the whole thing, just the beginning). I am able to go into safe mode, but there is not much I can do from there.

THINGS I'VE TRIED:

Putting in a reinstall disk, which apparently was not the right one (Can't seem to find the one I need).

Put Ubuntu, a free OS, on a disk and brought it over to the computer but in safe mode the CD would not boot.

Put Ubuntu on a flash drive but it would not be read.

I suspect it could be the hard drive because it is IDE, or the drivers (the blue screen says to check drivers) that I have not been able to install due to safe mode

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AMD Athlon 64 x2 5600 2.9GHz

Gigabyte M61PME-S2P

Kingston 2GB DDR2 1066

MSI 9800GT

Western Digital 40GB (I know) HDD (from my old dell)

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Posted: 19th Jun 2009 07:26
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Did you remove the drivers for the old computer before you took the hard drive out? I had that problem a while back with a build, ended up doing a backup and clean install of Windows.


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Hockeykid
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Posted: 19th Jun 2009 07:29
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Quote: "Did you remove the drivers for the old computer before you took the hard drive out?"


No I did not, is there a way to do this through safe mode?

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Posted: 19th Jun 2009 07:33
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Looks like this person had a problem similar to yours.


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Hockeykid
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Posted: 19th Jun 2009 07:50
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I'm trying something else at the moment but if it doesn't work ill try the link.

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GreenDixy
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Try taken some things out, Switching the hardware cables around. IF its a connection problem that may do it.

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Did you configure the right stuff in the BIOS? When starting the computer, press f2 (I think), and you will enter the bios. Then go to the boot tab, and make sure the boot priority is set to the cd-rom drive. Then press f10 to save and exit, and you should be able to boot from the cd. Also check under the "advanced" tab, and make sure you set one harddrive to master, and the other to slave (If the other one is on the same cable.)

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Hockeykid
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Posted: 19th Jun 2009 10:04
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I got it to work, but when I installed the video drivers and utilities I tried to install the motherboards drivers, every time something would install it would reboot the PC. When it rebooted the first time it made all the colors disoriented. The system continued to re install all of the motherboards drivers but it was on the last one and the program seems to lock up, I can use the start menu but when clicking something such as "My Computer" it freezes the start menu and after a few minutes says "windows cannot find '\(null)' make sure you typed the name correctly and then try again, to search for a file click the start button"

Also ever since it has restarted non of my icons for the desktop are coming up (IE and recycling bin) and it changed my background to the default (the video Utilites came with a free background) I can not interact with the desktop at all EX-right click.

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David R
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Posted: 19th Jun 2009 10:15 Edited at: 19th Jun 2009 10:16
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0x7E is a driver problem (SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED) most likely from a video driver.

However, based on the fact nothing else will boot, check your BIOS, there's probably something wrong with it (as that's another possible cause for 7E)

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Posted: 19th Jun 2009 10:27 Edited at: 19th Jun 2009 10:28
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Quote: "most likely from a video driver."


I just uninstalled the drivers labled Nvidia Drivers. and it now works, i just need to figure out how to get the drivers on with out it doing that.

Also I acidently did something and now I don't have the newer windows theme

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