– we just upgraded a system from an AOpen AK72 motherboard (with Athlon 700MHz CPU)to an ASUS A7A266 motherboard (with Athlon XP 2400+ CPU) –
– system worked fine with the former motherboard and no changes were made to the system hardware other than motherboard replacement –
– we can boot to the floppy drive so we used it to flash the BIOS to the latest version (ASUS A7A266 ACPI BIOS Revision 1012) and now as expected, the system can recognize the CPU as 2400+ and memory checks out OK (1.5G Corsair SDRAM)-
– problem: when booting to the hard drive, everything checks out OK until the Windows 2000 Pro opening screen which quickly becomes a blue screen with following message:
” *** STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF681B84C,0xC0000034,0x00000000,0x00000000)INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE ” and includes suggestions for checking hard drives and controllers –
– we have no reason to believe anything has changed or corrupted the hard drives …. we simply replaced the motherboard, and we have checked all connections to board and drive (system correctly identifies all drives during POST) –
– we have reinstalled the old motherboard, and system boots fine, with all drives functioning as expected, confirming no system damage …. but with new motherboard, error message returns as before –
– can anyone explain why ? …. and how to solve this problem ? –
system:
ASUS A7A266 mainboard
3 Corsair 512M SDRAM DIMMS
primary master – Maxtor 80G drive
primary slave – Hitachi DVD-ROM drive
secondary master – WDC 80G drive
secondary slave – TDK CD-RW drive
floppy drive
NVIDIA video AGP card
Diamond modem PCI card
NetGear PNA network PCI card
