Windows Xp Error After Replacing Motherboard
Motherboard is the main circuit board, which contains all the basic circuitry and components of the computer system. The main components of motherboard include memory, BIOS, microprocessor, mass storage device interfaces including hard drive, interconnecting circuitry, expansions slots, serial and parallel ports and the controllers which control peripheral devices. All the chips collectively form chipset.
An IDE or Integrated Drive Electronics controller is what acts as an interface between motherboard’s bus or data paths and the computer storage device, such as hard drive. Today, for EIDE or IDE hard drives, IDE controllers are still there on the motherboards.
If the motherboard is replaced in a Windows XP system, this is needed that the replaced motherboard must contain the IDE controller that has the same chipset as of the earlier used motherboard. However, if they differ, Windows XP may prompt an error when you start the computer system after motherboard replacement:
"STOP 0x0000007B INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE"
IDE controller difference may not let the system to start. In order to resolve this issue, we need to check whether the new IDE controller is detecting the hard drive size as the same as was detected by previous IDE controller or not.
- If the new IDE controller is detecting the hard drive as the same size, we need to carry out in-place upgrade (reinstallation) of Windows XP.
- However, if the size doesn’t come out to be same, we need to repartition and format the hard drive and then reinstall Windows XP operating system. It requires the data to be backed up first to avoid Data Recovery requirements.
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