ABIT AV7 Motherboard Bluescreen

bolt wrote on 7/31/2004, 6:13 PM

Can any one help....

I have just completed a new build and am going through to install the operating system windows 2000.

Spec is as follows:

Abit AM7 Board Chipset Nforce Ultra 2
XP 2500 CPU (Barton)
RAM: 256 Winbond (BH5)
120GB Sata

When the installation gets to the formatting stage there is a blue screen error as follows:-

0X00000050 stop missing ntoskrnl.exe

I have tried different RAM, checked the hard drive, cleared the CMOS, flashed the latest BIOS...

Any ideas as to what is causing this?
Thanks

Comments

JohnnyRoy wrote on 7/31/2004, 8:50 PM

My guess would be the SATA drive. You probably need to build a special driver diskette and then use a Function key combination to tell Windows 2000 Install to load your drivers from diskette.

This is one of the reasons I only have SATA drives for capture and render. I kept an IDE drive for the OS to avoid the problem you’re having. It’s totally doable, but it’s a hassle. Hopefully the docs that came with your motherboard will help you out. I have a Gigabyte GA-8KNXP mobo and it came with a separate manual on how to do the right incantations to use SATA drives as a boot device and get Windows to install correctly. I chose not to even go there.

~jr