Saturday, March 16, 2013

Blue screen when re-install windows XP on Optiplex 780, 790, 7010

XP has no native drivers for SATA controllers, so it doesn't know how to communicate with a SATA drive.  That is what the 0x7b means.  You might be able to set SATA operation to ATA or Compatability Mode in the BIOS (F2), but I wouldn't recommend it, as it will run as a standard ATA/IDE device and you won't be able to take advantage of what SATA has to offer (NCQ, cache, etc.).  What you need to do is load the drivers for the SATA controller.  It will be one of the following:

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