Boot Blue screen stop 0x0000007B

[Candoo]

Greetings.

Helping seniors with dead Best Buy HP PC in a Different Canadian Province.

I don't normally do HP's....

Desktop H8-1223 with angelica m3970bm died.

Replaced mobo with m3970cm and new vid card, swapped FX CPU, RAM, Wlan chip and New Vid Card.

It Lives! I just love Craigslist. 10$ for mobo.

New mobo bios tagged H8-1559.

Now to tackle BSOD stop 0x0000007B error.

Seems a bios sata mode driver trip up.

Tried all 3 settings in new mobo BIOS : RAID, AHCI, and IDE. no go.

Tried load hive and turn on Msahci and IastorV no joy.

COA Key on case win 7 prem OA not liked at MS when looking for Win7 CD ISO. 

HDrive is there, seems great, poking around folders ok.

Boot CD Partition wizards see no errors.

Normally a repair windows install fixes small dents like this. HP however makes that difficult.

Options so far are try the recovery partition option (win 7 prem OA) on a Win 8 shipped mobo and lose all user data if it works? There is this backup routine but I haven't found the restore instructions assuming the system recovery will work.

Are there any other Windows 7 repair options?

The trust us and drink the kool-aid solution went badly on an WinVistaUltimate Acer unit some years back.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

If you only have one drive, set the BIOS to AHCI.

You can make your own plain W7 installation media from this site...

Click on the Windows ISO Downloader.exe link to download the tool to create the W7 ISO file download.

Select the W7 COEM ISO file download version for the product key the OS is good for, which is the OEM operating system ISO file.

https://www.heidoc.net/joomla/technology-science/microsoft/67-microsoft-windows-and-office-iso-downl...

I have zipped up and attached the Microsoft utility below, that will allow you to either put the file on a USB flash drive or burn it to a DVD.

Then you can install the drivers and available software you need from your PC's support page.

https://support.hp.com/us-en/product/HP-Pavilion-HPE-h8-Desktop-PC-series/5187019/model/5231562/

[Candoo]

Hi Paul.

Thanks. I had already done that.

Bios set to AHCI. Secure boot turned off.

I Had already googled it and dowloaded the generic COEM DVD iso. 

It refuses to install off cold DVD boot since new mobo is UEFI <sigh>.

Is there a switch in Windows install to bypass that?

Thanks for the zip file. A USB bootable version would be handy.

Popping in a spare (MBR style) 1.0 TB HD from the parts cupboard with old win7pro install from an older ASUS mobo+AMD X2+Nvidia vid card booted right up to login screen. (Wow). I needed to sort out video and network drivers, but I could move around in Windows.

Activation police gave me 3 days to play.

Popping in That downloaded DVD above and custom installing windows 7 prem to another empty partition on that drive from within win 7 pro (borrowed) bypassed the UEFI trap, and gave me a clean Win 7 prem install. But Activation failed using the COA on the Case of the H8-1223, giving me 30 days to play. The newer H8-1559 mobo may have tripped up the activation. A phone call in to MS "may" fix that.

The HP support assistant checked out the system ok. So hardware seems good as an H8-1559 <hehe>. Now to fix the H8-1223 windows install.

Now I have copied the H8-1223 windows partition  over to where the win pro 7 used to be and that nicely gives me the same BSOD 7B error.  A GPT drive would likely object to that <hehe>.

Booting to DVD :

The repair option gives a wrong version error.

Trying the upgrade install can only be done from within a working windows it seems.

Trying Custom will go to the EFI  error problem.

From Within Windows :

The upgrade option only upgrades the windows you booted into. No option to point to the next partition.

The Custom option warns you of program and data loss. A Clean Install. Not Ideal.

This used to be so much easier with XP... Slipstream and go.

Next up would be to pick up another 2T HD and back up/copy the works and see what the H8-1223 HP recovery will do with the  H8-1559 UEFI mobo and new vid card from an MBR HD. Whee.

I need a bigger shovel!

Any suggestions?

Can a windows upgrade install be triggered from a WinPE boot?

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.

Sorry that you are having the devil's own time getting W7 to install.

Did you also enable legacy mode in the BIOS?  You have to enable legacy mode and disable secure boot.

See this link for more info...

https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c03659945