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    7811 instant BSOD

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by SeeYouInTheER, Oct 22, 2008.

  1. SeeYouInTheER

    SeeYouInTheER Notebook Consultant

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    my friend gave me a 80gb hitachi drive to put in as a secondary drive. i put it in and went to boot vista, it wouldnt load. sat in the loading bar screen for 5 minutes. then rebooted and went into BIOS, unknowingly change the SATA mode to RAID, and now when i try to boot windows, it instantly BSOD's and then restarts, and when i try to go into the bios settings to change it back to ACHI, it makes the noise of me pressing F2, but skips right past it. now i cant do anything, what can i do.
     
    SeeYouInTheER, Oct 22, 2008
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  2. Andy

    Andy Notebook Prophet

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    What notebook did your friend have ?

    So, you get a beep code with the HDD in AHCI mode, and a BSOD in IDE mode ?
     
    Andy, Oct 22, 2008
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  3. SeeYouInTheER

    SeeYouInTheER Notebook Consultant

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    It was an Inspiron 6400

    No in AHCI windows seemed as if wasnt loading what so ever so I rebooted entered the bios and switched the SATA mode to Raid instead of AHCI
     
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    SeeYouInTheER Notebook Consultant

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    The biggest issue at hand here is I cannot get into bios to switch it back, and winows instantly BOSD's
     
    SeeYouInTheER, Oct 22, 2008
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    There should be like 3 options in there -- IDE/AHCI/RAID....

    Anyway, its not going to work if you are loading Vista from that 80GB HDD. You'll have to install windows on a separate partition on that drive, to access the data.
    The windows on that HDD has the ICH7M Storage Controller Driver installed on it, and your notebook has the ICH9M-E controller, and it does not recognise that driver, and will BSOD, probably with the code 0x7B, etc
    Instead of installing, you could insert the Vista Disc, and run a repair install, and hope that the appropriate storage controller driver will be installed.
    (The storage controller driver is packed into the Chipset Driver, and the 2 notebooks have different chipsets 945PM/ICH7M vs PM45/ICH9M-E)

    If you are having trouble loading Vista from the primary (preinstalled) HDD, remove the hitachi HDD, and connect it externally, copy the data, and then format it before connecting it internally.
     
    Andy, Oct 22, 2008
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    SeeYouInTheER Notebook Consultant

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    nah nah fixed fixed problem, dont worrya bout it
     
    SeeYouInTheER, Oct 22, 2008
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  7. Syngensmyth

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    SeeYouInTheER it would be nice if you told HOW you fixed the problem for those inquiring minds out there.
     
    Syngensmyth, Oct 22, 2008
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    He finally took the hard drive out, and hit F10 to access BIOS;P
     
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  9. Syngensmyth

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    That's what I would have done.
     
    Syngensmyth, Oct 22, 2008
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  10. talent

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    My guess is he changed the primary boot device from the 80GB drive to the original 200GB one. But E is prolly right.
     
    talent, Oct 23, 2008
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  11. Syngensmyth

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    Would have worked but he could not get into the BIOS page.
     
    Syngensmyth, Oct 23, 2008
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  12. talent

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    Dang missed that part - ok what E said :)
     
    talent, Oct 23, 2008
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  13. Syngensmyth

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    I'm taking one of you rep points away. :p
    -rep
     
    Syngensmyth, Oct 23, 2008
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