New Motherboard. Installing drivers MANUALLY. Fun.

Just spent a whole night changing my desktop’s motherboards over. Normally it would have been a straightforward affair – the successful POST once everything was together was a pretty good sign that I did everything right.

However, my XP is installed onto my SATA hard disk, and this meant the motherboard would have a seperate controller for this. Seperate controllers that were made relatively recently means they don’t have native drivers in XP itself. First sign that you’ve mucked up?

STOP: 0x0000007B

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