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Two machines with STOP 0x0000007B
LockedApparently have a nasty virus embedded on 2 system boards preventing me from reformatting or replacing the harddrives.
One machine I?m having a rather nasty time with has a corrupted .INI files so booting up into Windows is ? well, I screwed myself there by disabling most of the boot scripts to include one that apparently controls the freaking keyboard!! GOOD JOB!
Neither machine will bootup from 3 different XP System CDs. One CD is the actual recovery disk that came with the machine.
Both end up with BSOD STOP 0x0000007B (0xF78E663C, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000).
I have replaced the harddrive in both machines hoping to start from scratch but I get the same error when entering into Setup from the CDs.
So, I have:
A. 2 different PCs (Dells)
B. 3 different boot/setup CDs
C. 4 different harddrives
I have run 4 different virus packages to include Symantic Gold (full copy) and Avast! Trial. None seem to find or fix either machine.
In order to run SecureClean, I need to be able to run from Windows which is impossible on the one with the corrupted INI?s.
Recently I?m able to at least activate the Dell Restore (Cntrl F11) at startup. But it doesn?t really ?restore?. It gets me to a D:\ prompt (don?t know why). I try to figure out what to choose from the numerous unhelpful choices (none of which are a ?RESTORE.EXE?) and finally settle on DELLDIAG.EXE. It runs through a gammit of tests and all PASS.
I then run Cntrl-F11 again and this time it gets all the way through acknowledgement of my Service Tag information but then ?the dreaded blinking underscore at the top left?. This is worse than the BSOD!! Let?s give it a clever name? How about SOAB!?
So, REBOOT AGAIN. This is where I take a break and watch ?The Website is Down ? Sales Guys vs Web Dude?.
This time, I get:
Loading PBR for descriptor 2 ? done.
Microsoft? Windows 98
C:\>
SO, I reboot AGAIN:
This time I interrupt with F6 to load third party drivers?
I choose S to select and it asks me for the ?Manufactured-supplied hardware support disk into Drive A:?
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!?! WHO HAS A DRIVE ?A? ANYMORE!!! Should I take another trip to WorstBuy?