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The Deadly 0×0000007E

Wow. After an hour of sweating I got a computer not continually restarting with Blue Screens of Death.

The story is the following: Motherboard gets fried by powersurge. It’s an older Intel MB with a chipset that’s no longer being manufactured. Ok, I look around and find a good deal on a motherboard – it’s an AMD but it’s a lot faster and the chipset is different anyway.

Motherboard arrives. I install it. Start the repair install from a Windows XP home SP 2 CD. Everything seems easy. Then comes the  first reboot of the install. And the next one and the next one, and the next one with a quick flash of blue screens. I finally was able to stop the blue screen so that I can see what’s the errormessage.

Of course, BSOD messages are famous of being cryptic. I google the code: 0×0000007E. Microsoft knowledge base article comes up firs. I read it, tried what it said – didn’t work. BSOD after BSOD…

Then I had a genius idea: search for “stop 0×0000007e amd motherboard” in Google. Bingo. The first article came up solved the problem. I want to give credit to him and discredit to Microsoft. M$ removed the knowledgebase information that would have solved the problem!!!

Here’s his article: http://www.runpcrun.com/0×0000007E

By the way the solution (in case Micro$oft reach out to him and have him delete the solution too) is to remove the intelppm.sys file from the C:/windows/system32/drivers folder. I actually just moved into another folder.