Alright, I installed a new motherboard in my PC last night. It is a ASUS. Not sure of the exact model right off hand, but it fits a Pentium Celeron D 3.06 478-pin CPU. I got everything installed and plugged in, and I turned the power on. I was able to go into the BIOS menu, but when I tried to start up windows, I got a blue error screen. It read something about “could be a virus, or a contaminated hard drive”. The error code I was given was “***Stop: 0x0000007B (0xF8951528, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)” What have a done. I am very worried that I have damaged my hard drive, I have many irreplaceable files on there. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thank you so much for the time and effort!
If you change boards out and try to boot with a install from the old board, windows most of the time will freak out, mostly to do with different chipset drivers. There are some things you could have done before the swap, but to late now. If you dont want to do a clean install, just boot to your XP/Vista CD/DVD and do a repair install. It will save all your files.
Yes this has happened to me several times. Windows does actually "freak out" as IamOne wrote. It's really just because of the new motherboard you didnt do anything wrong to the Hard Drive. You could also place back the old motherboard, boot windows like you normally did, and make a backup of all your files.
