MS Windows Home Server

Please help! I'm trying to install WHS on Dell Dimension 9100. I just purchased and installed a WD Caviar Green 1TB HD. When I boot from the WHS disk the program starts the installation and I am prompted to choose a server name and enter my product key, etc. The program than continues the installation. When it finishes loading the installation files it tries to reboot and I get a BSOD with the following error: Stop=0x0000007B. I've googled this error message and it seems that I'm missing some drivers. My questions are: What drivers am I missing? Where do I find them (a search on the Dell website gives me only Maxtor drivers and the WD website only has diagnostic drivers)? And, once I find these drivers how do I make them available to the WHS install? I would appreciate any help.

Sorry to hear you are having such a diffcult time of it. I do not have a solution but it seems I have the same problem. IT is a Dell XPS 720 I am trying to move to. Over 20 attempts and each time the Blue screen from Hell. I think I have my problem isolated to all the RAID controllers on my mother board. MY MOBO is an Nvidia 680i SLI for Intel.

Let me suggest several things I have tried from my research.

1. First uninstall every peice of hardware you can that the server does not need to install WHS, you can add them back later in a controlled environment. That means if you have 2 optical drives, one CD abd the other a DVD R/W,,,get rid of one of them. Go into the BIOS, F2 on a Dell as it boots. Go into the section for DRIVES, find the opyical you want to get rid of and turn it off in the BIOS. Do the same for any additional hard drives other than the drive you are installing WHS on. After they are turned off go into the case and disconnect them. If you have a seperate audio board, seperate board for addition USB ports...etc get them all turned off in the BIOS and get tyhem out.

2. Were you running RAID in the system before you tried to make it a WHS? Make sure the RAID option is turned OFF in the BIOS.

3. What O/S are you running now is it Vista or XP. For WHS Dell will not have drivers for your machine for server 2003, so go directly to the manfacture of the individual hardware components and see if they do, if not go with drivers for XP, they should work for WHS. To get the name of each item of hardware go into the Devise Manager and double click each item...here you can get the current driver version as well as the vendor. You can also disable hardware here.

I hope this helps for now, I have been at it for over a month with no luck. But I am not giving up and I will get there. It really matters what O/S is in your system before you start the WHS install, so if you can get XP installed, XP drivers will work for server 2003 which is WHS. So post back the o/s installed and if you had RAID on the system.

Good luck Gene