Blue screen of death on boot up

bubbanm · #1 July 4th, 2012, 04:43 PM

Getting the blue screen of death after seeing the xp splash on a dell inspirion laptop. It says stop code 7B. Any ideas what I should try?

**Murf** · #2 July 6th, 2012, 05:00 AM

Stop code 7B can be many things, does it give more info i.e.,

STOP: 0X0000007B (0XF78DA524, 0XC000034, 0X00000000, 0X00000000 bla bla bla???

bubbanm · #3 July 10th, 2012, 03:41 PM

Here is what I have
STOP: 0X0000007B (0XF79E0528, 0XC000034, 0X00000000, 0X00000000

bubbanm · #4 July 12th, 2012, 03:19 PM

Any ideas anyone?

**Murf** · #5 July 13th, 2012, 02:13 PM

Get into your BIOS SETUP, 1st screen will tell you how. In there check, generally under Integrated Periferals, and see if the mode of SATA is set to AHCI, if it is set it to ATA or IDE, then save and exit.