crcdisk.sys STOP 7B/xx/00/00 and BSOD

Let us know how you go.

Cheers

Hi, Steven, all,

this night I did reset the notebook to its original state using the recovery tool.
I tried all that I described and some more. No way out. I took also some other drives with XP and tried to boot from external USB. Everytime it stopped with BSOD at loading crcdisk.sys (STOP: _7B, _xx, _34 etc).

I'm going to return this notebook just in this moment. What I'll buy now is a notebook with INTEL CPU and INTEL chipset. And a notebook where drivers really are supported by the several companies and not only by the OEM (MEDION).

I'll come back when the new stuff is initialized and I Try ty boot fron an external drive.

Best regards,
Manfred

@ Steven, @ all,

I took the notebook back to the MEDION factory outlet and got my money back (really! - too many facts against this model!).
Then I went to ALDI and purchased the latest "ALDI edition" of an AKOYA notebook.
Infos you find here.


The returned model was AMD CPU based with NVIDIA graphics and chipsets. It was driver-supported only by MEDION. MEDION had only some but not all needed drivers also for XP.

On a support disk that came with the new AKOYA notebook I found all needed drivers for VISTA (pre-installed) and for XP, too.

First irritating fact:
The notebook recognized an USB-connected external HDD at once and without any problems. But the BIOS doesn't "see" the USB connected drive. If I set USB to the first boot option the drive will be ignored.

Here some info:
1st:


2nd:


Before I start anything else I'll open the notebook and swap the drives. If the notebook boots from the (now) internal XP drive I'll install all the XP drivers.
Then I'll connect (using the USB port) the original HDD with VISTA and try to boot from this now external drive (IF already detected by the BIOS).

Then I'll come back and report.

Best regards,
Manfred

@ Steven, @ all,

let's remember:
The first notebook had AMD-CPU, NVIDIA chipset, NVIDIA graphic, Realtek sound.
The new notebokk has INTEL-CPU, INTEL chipset, NVIDIA graphic, Realtek sound.
(It's far better, also with much more additional stuff included.)

I did what I announced with no success.
But there is a difference:
The old notebook detected an additional drive at an USB port at once and also in the BIOS when started up.
The new notbook does not detect an additional drive at an USB port in the BIOS. Never.

So I removed the original VISTA drive from the notebook and placed the former external XP drive at its spot.
See what I got watching this VIDEO.

New was that the BSOD came after a loaded Mup.sys.
Searching for the STOP error and "Mup.sys" I found a lot of links.
An impressing explanation concerning (also) a new EEEPC I found here (#3).

When I booted the notebook from an XP installer CD the setup did not detect the Windows VISTA drive, but it detected the drive at the USB port and showed it as C:\ with its correct name "notebook".

I pressed ENTER for installing and hoped to get a REPAIR option.
But the installer denied any way to install XP because of several reasons.
No way.
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At present I'm going again to remove the internal VISTA drive and to replace it by the XP drive. The I'll try to install XP Professional SP2 using the "R" option. If NOT failing I'm nevertheless not sure that it finally works. Would be nice if yes...

I didn't try another option due to missing hardware:
The new notebook has also a combo jack for USB/eSATA. At present I don't have an according case and the needed cable to connect the external XP drive to this port. So I ordered it, and I'm sure that it will arrive on Tuesday, at least.

Okay, I'll start the next try and report. If there is no success I'll continue on Tuesday.
And if again all works may fail I'll go to the OEM MEDION. Their main office is only 5 miles from here, and I know some guys there since many years.
What I will NOT accept:
That a modern notebook can't boot from an internal or external drive with XP.
IF so, there will break out a war in the media. Be sure: I can care for this war.
I'm, a writer for the trade press.

Best ragards,
Manfred
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http://www.heiliger-isidor.net/notebook/Notebook_2ndDRIVE.wmv

The driver giving you problrm should be agp440.sys as it comes fter mup.
If i understand, you are using XP which was already on your drive, if that is the case, you should add some drivers so you can use it with the chips of your new system.

Good afternoon, @ Sid,

let me report what happened:

• I removed the originally built-in VISTA drive and dropped the drive with XP (that was set up and usable in the returned notebook) into the new notebook.
• Then I booted the notebook from Windows XP setup CD.
• Now I hoped to get a setup "R" option for "repairing" the existing XP system.

No way.
Instead of any option I got a message that no drive was found.
Setup had to quit by hitting F3.
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I guess that there is a designed mess in EEPROM or CMOS that shall prevent such operations as wanted by me.
Let's be cool.
Tuesday I'll put the XP drive into another case that allows connecting the drive using the eSATA jack. However, this jack must have a sense, maybe especially for allowing what I try to realize. But on that is not given any documentation...

Best to you in/at Paris!
I like this capital. Being there I usually stay at Etap Hôtel, Rue Michel Carré,
Argenteuil. Going to town I take the railway and ride til Pont de l'Alma or near
Ile de la Cité.
But some more I like the regions around Epinal, Saint-Dizier to Nancy (and
the famous Place Stanislas).

Best regards,
Manfred

Hi manfred,
You cannot just insert a hdd with windows installed into another computer which has not the same chipset in the mother board and not the same video system.
You could have done it with a tricky solution before giving back the "old" laptop (modification of the registry and add some drivers in system32).
I think anyway that you have to perform a new install on this hard drive.

BTW, i am living just in front of the "bois de Vincennes"

@ Sid,
may be, may be not.

For "a new install on this hard drive" I must get access to this drive.
But there is no.

• Either the BIOS does not "see" the USB connected drive...
  (However, nevertheless VISTA detects the drive and is using it as data drive without any problems!)
• Or I boot from XP setup CD with VISTA drive inside the notebook, XP drive on USB external connection, the setup doesn't detect the VISTA drive, "sees" the external drive with its real name ("notebook") and denies to install there - neither full installation nor (the not offered) repair installation.
• Or I replace the internal VISTA drive by the XP drive and the setup doesn't detect any drive.

That's an enigma which I can't compare with anything.
So:
Let's see what happens with the other kind of case and cable (eSATA).
If I don't find a way then MEDION must do the job.

On the other hand:
I often moved one drive from one desktop PC to another (installed as standalone HDD, being C:\). Then I booted from XP setup CD and ordered a "repair" setup. That worked all time.
The problem must be that notebook hardware and BIOS don't "see" the drive in a proper way. Not "seeing" it one cannot "handle" it.

I'll come back when having new (maybe also good) news.
Best regards,
Manfred
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You kidding? "i am living just in front of the "bois de Vincennes" "
There are many "fronts" and espaciall many "routes"...

Check in the bios if you can setup sata native support on/off ?

If you have 2 PCs with the same mother board using the same chip, it is not a problem but in your case it is quite different.