BSOD on Windows 7 Startup Animation, error STOP: 0x0000007B

Hey everyone, I have a bit of a complicated problem today, so bear with me .

So several days ago my friend bestowed upon me some old desktop rig that had been collecting dust in his room for a while. It seems to have the internals of a Dell Inspiron 531, except with 4GB of RAM and a different video card (having trouble determining). After I turned it on, I discovered the CMOS battery was dead, so I quickly replaced it.

There was no hard drive when I got it so I hooked up a Western Digital Scorpio Blue 640GB (WD6400BPVT) with Windows 7 on it to get things going. Things were going fine until I booted the computer, now at the Windows 7 logo animation, within the first few frames (where the red and green tiles first appear as small dots), I get this error:

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*** STOP: 0x0000007B (0xFFFFF880009A9928, 0xFFFFFFFFC0000034, 0X0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000(
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I've tested the hard drive on another computer, and it boots normally. Is there something i'm missing? The hard drive seems to be hooked up correctly (SATA and power cables both fit normally, recognized in BIOS). I've tried just about every advanced boot option (Safe Mode, Repair my computer, etc), and all BSOD before they can even finish loading.

Any help at all is greatly appreciated, I've been trying to solve this for a couple days now, and Google has gotten me nowhere.

Well, it sounds like an Incompatible hardware problem. It sounds like the HDD is incompatible with the PC. For the reason being is that you are getting a bugcheck of 0x7b which indicted an inaccessible boot device.

When you boot the HDD on the other computer does windows boot perfectly fine?

Kaktussoft said:

Make Windows 7 bootable after motherboard swap
Try that.

Very nice suggestion