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Howdy,
When I boot into the installer, I eventually get a BSoD. Anyone know how to fix this? I'm thinking the OS is incompatible with a component, because the same disc works on my laptop. Thanks, |
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Did you slipstream your desktop's SATA drivers? If you don't do that then you'll get a BSoD on the installation. You can find out your computer's SATA driver by going to Device Manager and under the IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers category. Make sure to download the Windows XP 64-bit edition because the 32-bit XP drivers wont work. Then slipstream the drivers into the installation using a program called nLite. You'll also need a blank disc to burn the slipstreamed XP installation.
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Thanks, that's what was wrong, and it WAS installed, until this happened: http://lockergnome.net/questions/179563/internal-hdd-1-not-appearing. If you could help, that'd be fantastic. |
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I bet XP does not like the GPU/CPU. They are too new. I had problems with XP when I had a play with it on my PC. Yet it is fine on old stuff. |
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You're running Windows XP 64-bit, loool. I understand you have 16GB of RAM, but you should consider taking out sticks of RAM or upgrading to Vista/7 for better performance. Why take out? XP on 64bit runs a max of 128GB of RAM... It's Windows XP 64-bit. The drivers aren't even that good to begin with in XP 64. Come on, just install 32-bit. 64-bit XP sucks. When I ran windows xp 64 on my Opteron 64 I never had a problem on mine and it was a self built computer on top of that. Opteron aren't exactly "new" You never had a problem with drivers or program installations? Not that I that I know of with windows XP. Never came around with a problem on my own computer over here. Hmm, but they said XP 64 was buggy and had virtually no drivers at the time. Well goes to show you, don't believe everything you read, lol.
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Why do you need to install XP? Most software has been updated to run on Windows 7, unless it's a really old piece of software that can only run on XP or lower. In that case, unless it's a really hardware-intensive game, you can run XP in a virtual machine (or XP Mode) and it should work fine, especially with 16gb of RAM. |
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on some motherboards you are required to manually select 64bit in the bios when you install a 64bit operating system. look in the manual to see if there are any settings like that that you have to enable before install. |
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why waste that hardware on xp. pre vista sp1 running xp i could understand. do yourself a favor and put 7 home 64 bit on that comp. personally i think you are going to be hardpressed getting most of that hardware to play nice with xp. |
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Most GPU vendors stopped releasing XP drivers a year ago... Move with the times! |
