When I boot up in Safe Mode, the last file that is displayed is ACPITABL.DAT. Googling "ACPITABL.DAT", there seems to be two different schools of thought as to the cause of this problem:
1) Bad SATA device driver
2) Incorrect ACPI bios settings
I re-ran setup updating the the SATA device driver but to no avail. I also tried changing the bios ACPI settings, disabling cache, and removing/disabling all non-essential devices and interfaces but that didn't work either.
Configuration:
ASUS P4B533-E motherboard with Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.26GHz uniprocessor w/1gb ram
Silicon Image 3114 SATARaid Controller Card (in non-raid mode)
Disk 0 - Maxtor 51024U2 (10gb) ATA - Basic Disk
Disk 1 - Western Digital WD1200JB (120gb) ATA - Dynamic Disk
Disk 2 - Western Digital WD1200JB (120gb) ATA - Basic Disk
Disk 3 - Seagate 3500630AS (500gb) SATA - Dynamic Disk
Disk 4 - Seagate 3500630AS (500gb) SATA - Dynamic Disk
Disk 5 - Maxtor 6Y160M0 (160gb) SATA - Basic Disk
Disk 1 active partition/volume boots to Windows 2000 Professional
Disk 2 active partition boots to Windows Server 2008 (setup failed)
Disks 3/4 contains mirrored volumes. Active partition/volume boots to Windows Server 2003
Background:
This system was working fine until I attempted to install Windows Server 2008 onto Disk 2. I previously was able to boot into Windows Server 2003 on Disk 3 and Windows 2000 Professional on Disk 1 by toggling the bios boot sequence.
After installing Windows Server 2008, I attempted to modify the bios and hit reset instead of gracefully exiting bios configuration. This caused the bios to reset itself to default values.
I'm not sure if the problem was introduced by the failed Windows Server 2008 install or the accidental bios reset, but from this point on, I get the following STOP messages when I boot up:
Windows Server 2003 (Disk 3) STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF789EA98, 0x0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)
Windows 2000 Professional (Disk 1) STOP: 0x0000006F (0xC000003A, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)
SESSION3_INITIALIZATION_FAILED
Corrective Steps Attempted:
1) I ran bootsect /n52 on the active partition/volume on Disk 1 in order to backout the Windows Server 2008 boot manager but still get the BSOD STOP: 0x0000006F (0xC000003A, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000) SESSION3_INITIALIZATION_FAILED when booting Windows 2000 Professional on Disk 1.
2) I ran chkdsk /f on Disk3 and found no errors.
3) I broke the mirrored Windows Server 2003 volume, ran Windows Server 2003 setup, pressing F6 to load a Silicon Image 3114 device driver (1.5.15.0), and updated the OS on Disk 3. The device driver is apparently good enough for setup to successfully complete but when I boot up, I still get the BSOD with STOP: 0x0000007B.
4) I ran Windows Server 2003 setup, pressing F6 to load the same Silicon Image 3114 device driver as above, and installed a new OS on Disk 5. I was able to successfully boot up this OS.
5) I removed all non-essential adapter cards and disabled all interfaces in bios, including IDE, but still get the BSOD with STOP: 0x0000007B when booting up Windows Server 2003 on Disk 3.
6) I tried toggling various bios power settings but still get the above bsods when booting Disks 1, and 3.
Summary:
I can successfully install and boot up a fresh copy of Windows Server 2003 onto a basic disk using a Silicon Image 3114 device driver, but I can't boot up an existing version of Windows Server 2003 from a dynamic disk, using the same device driver.
I suspect that my problem is either a bad bios setting, Windows Server 2003 setup is not correctly updating dynamic disks, or Windows Server 2008 has corrupted something.
Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.