XP Support

[Perryg114]

I am looking for a newer motherboard that will support XP 32 bit. I am trying to revive and old server and the motherboard I have does not support SATA III drives but it does support older SATA drives. I don't think there is a driver of a 6 yr old motherboard for the newer drives. The older motherboard is an ASUS p5G43T-M Pro. I think it has a jmicron 386 controller.

Anyway, can't find a newer motherboard that has XP drivers. Can't find and older one for that matter either. Trying to install WHS 2008. It works on my newer ASUS P8Z77-V LE but I am using that machine as my main desktop and don't want to sacrifice it for a server.

Perry

 

[vailr]

What is your budget?
If the budget allows, using your ASUS P8Z77-V for WHS 2008 and upgrading the desktop machine to something newer, would seem like a good solution.
It is possible to install "regular" XP-32 bit on a Z97 chipset board; however, I haven't messed around with WHS 2008. There's also the question of supplying an Intel hard drive controller driver during installation. For "regular" XP, a floppy disc is needed. Not sure about WHS 2008.
Z97 boards don't include a floppy disc connector.
There's the alternative option of modifying the installation media to include the required driver without needing a floppy drive.
Note: XP-32 bit on a Z97 machine will be lacking complete driver support, due to Intel's failure to provide chipset drivers. XP will still be able to run despite some Device Manager items being "yellowed out".

 

[zir_blazer]

Make a custom Windows XP ISO with nLite to integrate the AHCI Drivers or install in IDE mode, Fernando maintains Drivers for that in Win-Raid.
Skylake has the XHCI Controller issue, I don't know if there is a way to workaround using USB Devices during install with that platform.

Also, do you KNOW that it doesn't work with SATA-III Drives? If it has SATA connectors, you may try. There were compatibility issues during the SATA to SATA-II transition, but may be worth a shot.