Installing Windows XP on Asus P8P67 (SATA AHCI)

[Shangri-La]

Need some help here please... I'm trying to install windows xp 32 bit on my new P8P67 board with an SATA HD. I understand the XP installation CD doesnt have the right driver for SATA AHCI. So I followed the Asus P8p67 manual and created a floppy disk.

When installing Windows XP, I pressed "F6" and then 'S' to load driver from the USB floppy disk. The manual says I need to choose "desktop/workstation/server express chipset SATA AHCI controller", but I only see "desktop/workstation/server express chipset SATA RAID controller" and have to choose this. *I think this is where the problem is*. After loaded the driver, the installation process went on to a fatal error blue screen, saying HD errors, then failed.

I know in BIOS I could set Sata mode to IDE instead of AHCI. But since ASUS manual says this floppy disk method would work then it should work, no? And does it make a difference in performance if I really have to use IDE instead of AHCI in BIOS? Thanks guys...

 

[dawp]

If i remember right, at least on my sabretooth and other asus boards I've used, the default is IDE and you have to select ACHI to use it.

 

[Iron Woode]

how about downloading the newest driver (V10.5.0.1026). The AHCI driver for 32bit OS is in there.

extract the driver. click main folder -> click driver -> click disk -> click 32bit -> save to floppy.

 

[Shangri-La]

If i remember right, at least on my sabretooth and other asus boards I've used, the default is IDE and you have to select ACHI to use it.

Interesting... I think my board has ACHI as default. But either way, I guess I have to use IDE mode.

how about downloading the newest driver (V10.5.0.1026). The AHCI driver for 32bit OS is in there.

extract the driver. click main folder -> click driver -> click disk -> click 32bit -> save to floppy.

Thanks. This may actually work. But I'm so annoyed by the floppy thing, I bought a floppy drive when I built my old P4 socket478 jsut for Windows installation and now I need to buy a USB version because they dont provide onboard interface anymore, that I went ahead and bought a Window 7 pro. I saved $20 from the FDD!

 

[Iron Woode]

Interesting... I think my board has ACHI as default. But either way, I guess I have to use IDE mode.



Thanks. This may actually work. But I'm so annoyed by the floppy thing, I bought a floppy drive when I built my old P4 socket478 jsut for Windows installation and now I need to buy a USB version because they dont provide onboard interface anymore, that I went ahead and bought a Window 7 pro. I saved $20 from the FDD!

that is the nature of XP.

let us know if those drivers worked.

 

[sangyup81]

Install in IDE mode, install the AHCI drivers post-installation, and switch setting to AHCI mode. Floppies are a headache. I'd rather slipstream the drivers in than deal with that.

 

[pantsaregood]

Trying to use Windows XP with modern hardware is like putting Windows 95 on a Socket AM2 Athlon 64 X2 system. It likely won't work out because the OS is so dated.

Windows XP is dead. Move along. You're going to have an increasingly difficult time finding drivers.

 

[mindless1]

^ Have to disagree, it usually does work out. When you pick hardware you see whether it has XP drivers or not and if it doesn't... pick something else. Dead? That's a mental block. Win7 is better in many ways but not all.

 

[Mir96TA]

Slip Stream SP3 + ACHI Drivers
Prob Sloved

 

[mindless1]

Some of you might prefer to try the following, making a bootable USB drive with a standard (no need to keep slipstreaming different drivers onto new discs(!!) XP ISO and the AHCI driver(s).

http://www.rmprepusb.com/tutorials/install-xp-from-an-iso

 

[Slugbait]

Install in IDE mode, install the AHCI drivers post-installation, and switch setting to AHCI mode.

This doesn't actually work...I should know, it was one of the many things I tried over the last two days while building my wife's new machine. The problem is that the registry needs to be updated, but for some reason the driver install doesn't do that for you.

I'd rather slipstream the drivers in than deal with that.

This usually works, but not always...it worked back when I was setting up on my old Smackover mobo years ago, but didn't work at all with the wife's new Asus P8H67-m Pro/CSM mobo.

Here's what worked for me last night:
- set BIOS to IDE and install Windows
- follow the instructions at http://blog.mytwocents.it/?p=11

But keep in mind: the RED text in the instructions makes it appear as if you need to copy-n-paste an entire line from your iaAhci.inf file to your REG file...but that would be an incorrect assumption, and it won't work. In actuality, you only need to change 2829&cc to the DEV_ value you find in iaAhci.inf.