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ASUS P7P55D motherboard and XPsp3 installation - freezes at format.
Hello all,
a couple of weeks ago someone donated me an older ASUS P7P55D motherboard. Today It stuck it into a enclosure, and tried to install XPsp3 on it. The install process starts well enough, but every time when I come to the point where it wants to format the drive* it freezes (ctrl-alt-del doesn't work anymore). :-( *I've tried both full as well as quick. Strange thing is, it recognises the drive alright, and it did allow me to throw away old partitions and create a new one. Does anyone recognise this behaviour, and remembers what the cause is - and maybe how to solve it ? Regards, Rudy Wieser |
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ASUS P7P55D motherboard and XPsp3 installation - freezes at format.
R.Wieser wrote:
Hello all, a couple of weeks ago someone donated me an older ASUS P7P55D motherboard. Today It stuck it into a enclosure, and tried to install XPsp3 on it. The install process starts well enough, but every time when I come to the point where it wants to format the drive* it freezes (ctrl-alt-del doesn't work anymore). :-( *I've tried both full as well as quick. Strange thing is, it recognises the drive alright, and it did allow me to throw away old partitions and create a new one. Does anyone recognise this behaviour, and remembers what the cause is - and maybe how to solve it ? Regards, Rudy Wieser Boot a Linux LiveCD and test ? Or use a USB key with a Linux on it (if you have no optical drive). You could use "sudo gparted" there, and partition/format the drive, then do storage testing in the file manager there, to convince yourself it's not a hardware problem. ******* As for install, I'd look in the BIOS for the SATA port setting, and set it to IDE instead of AHCI or RAID. WinXP has vanilla IDE drivers, and won't need an F6 during the installation process. If you do happen to have the small txtsetup.oem based driver folder for AHCI/RAID on the driver disc, you can always press F6 and offer the driver to the install process. (You need to transfer the driver to a floppy, even a USB floppy would do.) There should be a prompt at the bottom of the screen, as to when to press F6 and offer the driver. Keep the driver floppy handy - when I tried this, it accessed the floppy at two different points in time, so loading the driver the first time was not the end of the story. Leave the floppy in the drive until the graphical part of the install is evident. You can also slipstream a driver like that, into a new WinXP installer CD, using NLite. That's for people who no longer own floppy drives or have any floppy diskettes to use. If you use IDE disk setting, then none of that F6 stuff is necessary. My newer machine doesn't have a WinXP era AHCI driver. If I want to install WinXP, I have to flip the ports to IDE mode, then when booting some other OS drive, I have to flip them back to AHCI. Running WinXP on modern hardware is great... as long as you're not multiplexing a lot of different OSes that need the ports flipped. A lot of people will have already installed the others in AHCI mode, which is why this becomes an issue. It wouldn't be an issue, with a little support from Intel. Paul |
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