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by jwslzs

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My system was recently brought down hard by a virus. When I tried to run a repair booting from the cd, I received an error that Windows had encountered a problem and has shut down to protect the system, and received a stop error of 0x0000007e, whichdoes not exist in technet that could find. I replaced the hard drive to do a clean install, but recieved the same error. I pulled out all of my pci cards, and left in the video card in the agp slot. Still no luck. I replaced the ram, the cd roms, flashed the mboard and video card bios, and even replaced the video card. Short of replacing a motherboard, does anyone else have an idea as to why this error has occurred, and how to get by it? All drives are recognizable, I can fdisk the HDD, etc.

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by pschuvie

Well gee now that you have it all apart it must be shiny and clean so what the heck could be the problem?

I do have a link that describes your stop code and in turn has a link into technet regarding same.

http://www.aumha.org/kbestopz.htm

its about halfway down.

I read through this and see that it is a loading of library information and could see that on a corrupted drive how this could be taking place. Equally a CD needing cleaning, or a slightly misaligned CDR might cause the action to take place. But since you have got all the things off and have gone way and above I am a bit baffled.

I suppose I would maybe try a different CDR making sure it is clean and that the media is in good shape. Also, since you didn't mention the keyboard but there does seem to be relationship here maybe you need to swap it out. I know it doesnt seem to make sense but to this point all your action says you should be up and running, so go figure.

Hope this is of some assistance and that you do get the system back in the box and up.

:-)

by jwslzs

The one thing I did not do was replace my DVD player. For some reason, XP did not like it, even though I had installed XP originally on the pc from the DVD player. Thanks for making me double check everything

by tim d il

By any chance do you get a Fatal_Boot_Volume or something like that? If so, run XP in repair mode and do a chkdsk /r. That's what Dell had me do when I first got my new Dell machine with XP. There's my suggestion. I'm not 10)% sure if that's a correct suggestion, but we'll see. :)

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