Installing XP Pro (non-SP1) on SATA ( intel ICH5)

[Plester]

Anyone done this? - there are no SATA drivers for the ICH5 controller, so when booting off of my XP Pro CD which is not a SP1 disk but an initial release disk, it hangs at 'starting ms windows' about 2 minutes into the install - before the F8 license agreement screen. I am guessing it is because it isn't a SP1 copy of XP. Bummer is there are no intel drivers for the ICH5 SATA controller (non-raid version).

 

[johnjkr1]

What type of motherboard do you have?

 

[Prong]

You need to download the SATA drivers for ICH5 from your mobo manufacturer, put them on a floppy and use the F6 install option when loading XP.

 

[zodder]

I have an MSI 865PE Neo and I didn't have to install any SATA drivers when installing XP on my new SATA hard drive. If you enable SATA in the BIOS, it should automatically detect the sata drive when you install XP. That's one of the great things about the latest Intel chipsets, they have native SATA support.

 

[Plester]

its a Shuttle XPC SB61G - like i said there are no SATA drivers for a non raid ICH5, so the F6 method is not applicable. There is no issue with the drive being recognized by the bios, the issue is that during the start of the install with a NON-SP1 version of XP Pro, the process stops at 'starting windows' which is just before the license agreement screen.

 

[boomerang]

Are you saying there are no drivers provided on the CD that came with it? I have just got to believe there are.

I'm sure not seeing any at the Shuttle site which is pretty lame. They've got to be on that CD.

 

[johnjkr1]

Why not create a slipstream copy of XP with SP1?

 

[Plester]

'Why not create a slipstream copy of XP with SP1?' - that's what i'm going to do.

 

[boomerang]

So the drivers to support this are, in fact, incorporated into SP1? Don't know, just asking. 🙂 It looks as though they are incorporated into the INF Update Utility at the Intel website.