Mac Pro Blue Screen of Death 0x0000007B

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Mac Pro Blue Screen of Death 0x0000007B

I am trying to install windows 7 onto a separate IDE hard drive in my Mac Pro.

I had this working years ago, and on recent boot ups, I can't get past the loading windows screen - it shows the flying windows logo, then Blue Screen Of Death with 0x0000007B

I can't for the life of me figure out how to boot a windows DVD, or USB stick (these I can select on startup with holding option, and just simply seem to put the computer to sleep, almost in an off state). That's a problem for a different thread...

So I installed a fresh copy of windows to the IDE hard drive with my windows PC. Next I moved this into my mac pro, held down option, and tried to boot from it. no dice! I get this BSOD.

I can run from the hard drive with VMWare Fusion, I installed the bootcamp drivers with that.

I just can't figure out how to get this stupid thing to boot!

Apple's bootcamp utility is basically useless - it doesn't detect IDE hard drives. I don't wish to dual boot on my startup disk either - this is why I have a mac pro - I have 5 hard drives in this thing.

Any ideas here? Why can't this silly thing boot?????

Mac Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10), 3,1

Posted on Dec 19, 2014 7:05 PM

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Loner T

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Dec 19, 2014 9:23 PM in response to Akira69

You may want to download EasyBCD and check that it shows up as a valid boot option. Also, if the IDE drive is plugged in MP and OSX is up, can you post the output of

diskutil list

diskutil cs list

sudo gpt -vv -r -show /dev/diskN (where N is number from the first command pointing to the IDE drive).

sudo fdisk /dev/diskN (where N is number from the first command pointing to the IDE drive).

You may also need to preform Startup Repair. Does the disk show up in System Preferences -> Startup Disk?

On the tower MP, Windows and OSX can be on separate physical disks. There may be a check on newer BCA for SATA/PCI connectivity of the designated drive during a new Windows installation, but if the installation is already working, it should not matter.

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Akira69 Author

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Dec 19, 2014 9:36 PM in response to Loner T

Diskutil list

/dev/disk0

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *500.1 GB disk0

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_HFS ProMac SSD 499.1 GB disk0s2

3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 784.2 MB disk0s3

/dev/disk1

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk1

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1

2: Apple_HFS Rudy 999.9 GB disk1s2

/dev/disk2

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk2

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk2s1

2: Apple_HFS Khaaaaaan 999.9 GB disk2s2

/dev/disk3

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk3

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk3s1

2: Apple_HFS store_hack 999.9 GB disk3s2

/dev/disk4

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: FDisk_partition_scheme *250.1 GB disk4

1: Windows_NTFS BOOTCAMP 250.1 GB disk4s1

/dev/disk5

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: Apple_partition_scheme *2.0 TB disk5

1: Apple_partition_map 32.3 KB disk5s1

2: Apple_HFS My Book Pro 2.0 TB disk5s3

/dev/disk6

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: FDisk_partition_scheme *2.0 TB disk6

1: Apple_HFS Elements 2.0 TB disk6s1

/dev/disk7

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *4.0 TB disk7

1: EFI EFI 314.6 MB disk7s1

2: Apple_HFS 4TB Seagate Time Mac... 4.0 TB disk7s2

diskutil cs list
No CoreStorage logical volume groups found

sudo gpt -vv -r -show /dev/diskN (where N is number from the first command pointing to the IDE drive).

there shouldn't be a "-" in front of show, I removed that and it outputted:

gpt show: /dev/disk4: mediasize=250058268160; sectorsize=512; blocks=488395055

gpt show: /dev/disk4: MBR at sector 0

start size index contents

0 1 MBR

1 2047

2048 488390656 1 MBR part 7

488392704 2351

sudo fdisk /dev/diskN

Disk: /dev/disk4 geometry: 30401/255/63 [488395055 sectors]

Signature: 0xAA55

Starting Ending

#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]

------------------------------------------------------------------------

*1: 07 0 32 33 - 1023 254 63 [ 2048 - 488390656] HPFS/QNX/AUX

2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused

3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused

4: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused

It shows up in startup disk:

I tried repairing using VMWare. That doesn't help. I can't get this thing to the repair screen on boot up...

There you have it! Thanks... maybe you can sleuth whats going on from above.

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Akira69 Author

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Dec 19, 2014 9:43 PM in response to Loner T

Loner T wrote:

You may want to download EasyBCD and check that it shows up as a valid boot option.

I forgot to answer this part: This thing boot up just fine in my windows PC. Seems EasyBCD is a windows program, should I run that while in VMWare and see what it says?

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Loner T

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Dec 20, 2014 9:55 AM in response to Akira69

VMware has its own BIOS layer, so it will not help much.

Do you have any third-party NTFS software?

If you boot from the Windows install media and use bootrec.exe (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392), can you rebuild the BCD?

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Akira69 Author

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Dec 22, 2014 9:05 PM in response to Loner T

Loner T wrote:

VMware has its own BIOS layer, so it will not help much.

Do you have any third-party NTFS software?

If you boot from the Windows install media and use bootrec.exe (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392), can you rebuild the BCD?

Well now here's the second half of my problem. I can't boot into any install disk - USB or DVD. I've tried EFI boot loaders, everything. This media is good for booting, I've confirmed it on my windows PC. What happens is that I can select the volume from the list either in an EFI boot loader or by the apple "hold option" method. all that happens here is that the computer pretty much goes to sleep. It's "on" in a sense, but the fans are off, etc. I've tried removing all my USB connections, everything. I can't boot the install media.

My best course is to take out the hard drive, hook it to my windows PC, and try the bootrec.exe method like you mention. Maybe I need another post for this installer boot issue.

Thanks for your help by the way.

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Loner T

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Dec 23, 2014 5:48 AM in response to Akira69

I am surprised that your installer refuses to boot. For the sake of simplicity, remove all other physical drives except /dev/disk4. Use your DVD Installer and test if a Startup Repair is allowed and starts up.

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