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(SOLVED) 0x7B BSOD after moving an w7 home pre installation to a different board

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First post, by kotel

Posted on 2024-09-22, 07:31

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Recently I got an Asrock 960GC-GS FX (AMD 960GC chipset) board to swap my Gigabyte GA-M68M-S2 (Geforce 7050) cause I don't like collecting DDR3 based boards (unless they are full ATX form factor). Since I already have w7 installed on the Gigabyte I decided not to reinstall w7 (due to not wanting to waste another license cause I'm running short). Sadly I got 0x7B error. I have already tried:
setting SATA mode to IDE<->AHCI
disabling/enabling SATA combined mode
automatic repair
putting .INF file with the .DLL's of the SATA driver from AMD installer
uninstalling all Nvidia stuff from device manager + software
putting .INF files using cmd from repair my PC
installing AMD drivers on the Gigabyte board
But to no avail. All got me 0x7B BSOD. I have ran out of ideas, so Ill ask here for help to make the install work on my new board.

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Reply 1 of 12, by kotel

Posted on 2024-09-22, 09:55

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The exact error code is 0x7B (0xFFFFF880009A9928, 0xFFFFFFFFC0000034, 0x0, 0x0).

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Reply 2 of 12, by dominusprog

Posted on 2024-09-22, 11:22

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Have you read this?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoo … troubleshooting

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Reply 3 of 12, by kotel

Posted on 2024-09-22, 12:09

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dominusprog wrote on 2024-09-22, 11:22:

Have you read this?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoo … troubleshooting

It looks like all the info there doesn't seem to be helpfull to my case. The original install only works on the previous board (GA-M68MT-S2) with some weird sata operation mode, cause when it finishes POST an "loading operating system..." message is displayed then w7 loads. It only appears on that board.

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Reply 4 of 12, by dominusprog

Posted on 2024-09-22, 12:11

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Why not do a fresh installation anyway?

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Reply 5 of 12, by kotel

Posted on 2024-09-22, 12:29

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Not wanting to waste another license cause they are out of my budget.

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Reply 6 of 12, by dominusprog

Posted on 2024-09-22, 12:59

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Have you thought about Linux? Wine is in pretty good shape these days.

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Reply 7 of 12, by Horun

Posted on 2024-09-22, 15:51

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If you have an activated Win 7 there are ways to backup the Windows 7 activation files and restore them if you need to do a clean re-install.

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Reply 8 of 12, by dr_st

Posted on 2024-09-22, 16:09

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https://www.richud.com/wiki/Windows_XP_Stop_E … _0x0000007B_FIX
This has worked for me on Vista/7 as well, but I only tried it on Intel chipsets. However, if your nVidia/AMD SATA controller can work with PCIIDE, it may still work. Or you may have to tweak it a bit.

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Reply 9 of 12, by kotel

Posted on 2024-09-22, 16:39

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dominusprog wrote on 2024-09-22, 12:59:

Have you thought about Linux? Wine is in pretty good shape these days.

I did but my experience with it was uhh... let's just say not the best so Ill stick with windows.

Horun wrote on 2024-09-22, 15:51:
If you have an activated Win 7 there are ways to backup the Windows 7 activation files and restore them if you need to do a clean re-install.

That is something I need to know when I screw up already activated installs. Sadly it seems it will only work if the hardware is unchanged, which in this case the whole mainboard is getting swaped for an older one.

dr_st wrote on 2024-09-22, 16:09:
https://www.richud.com/wiki/Windows_XP_Stop_E … _0x0000007B_FIX
This has worked for me on Vista/7 as well, but I only tried it on Intel chipsets. However, if your nVidia/AMD SATA controller can work with PCIIDE, it may still work. Or you may have to tweak it a bit.

Ill try it and maybe its gonna work. Just a big maybe...

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Reply 10 of 12, by kotel

Posted on 2024-09-22, 17:40

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dr_st wrote on 2024-09-22, 16:09:

https://www.richud.com/wiki/Windows_XP_Stop_E … _0x0000007B_FIX
This has worked for me on Vista/7 as well, but I only tried it on Intel chipsets. However, if your nVidia/AMD SATA controller can work with PCIIDE, it may still work. Or you may have to tweak it a bit.

Okay so that DID work, albeit not fully. Now those orbs become the windows logo but when the time for the blue welcome screen time comes the same 0x7B happens. Now I wonder what else is missing...

Turns out I forgot to set SATA mode to IDE. In the correct mode w7 boots fine. Ill stress test it and come back with the results.

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Reply 11 of 12, by kotel

Posted on 2024-09-23, 14:37

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Turns out I still need to reactivate windows after all... On the bright side I will know how to fix other installs if I ever get some with same issue.

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Reply 12 of 12, by kotel

Posted on 2024-10-18, 15:13

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Quick question I'll ask here (didn't wanna litter this forum with more threads). How do you load the pciide.reg file into an offline windows registry hive? Tried most of the ways but it complained that the system file in windows\system32\config wasn't a registry file. Renaming it also didn't help.
Trying to fix 3 XP installs on IDE drives and 1 w7 on an SATA drive without original hardware.

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