Help!!! XP won't install on new PC build

In your BIOS you should find the option called "SATA controller" if you have it of course and chage AHCI to COMPATIBILITY if you can.

If you cannot change to COMPATIBILITY mode then you are force to install XP on AHCI mode.In order to make XP work on AHCI,you must make the ISO image file of your XP disk,slipstream the AHCI drivers in XP ISO image file and burn it on the blank disk again and install XP OS from it.

Anyway try that first before buying new hardware components such as RAM memory.




Cheers!
 
Make sure you haven't got the original XP home/professional disk as they don't support pci-express x16 video cards and will cause a BSOD on install. After sp2 this is no longer an issue.
 
Hsv_Man said:
Make sure you haven't got the original XP home/professional disk as they don't support pci-express x16 video cards and will cause a BSOD on install. After sp2 this is no longer an issue.
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LoL there are original XP disks with SP1,SP2 or SP3 built in so maybe he gets lucky and get the original XP disk with SP3 :D
 
Hsv_Man said:
Make sure you haven't got the original XP home/professional disk as they don't support pci-express x16 video cards and will cause a BSOD on install. After sp2 this is no longer an issue.
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Show me proof that that is actually true.

The only issue I can see if he is using a pre SP1 XP install cd that doesn't have the sata controller built in or the sata controller in the bios is set to ahci instead of IDE/compatibility. In that case you will get a blue screen.
 
Same problem

I have just had this exact same problem. I returned the hardware to the supplier for them to sort out. They told me that this new Gigabyte motherboard will only load with XP Professional Service Pack 3 or later, I only have service pack 1. Believe it or not ??
 
nvs41 said:
I have just had this exact same problem. I returned the hardware to the supplier for them to sort out. They told me that this new Gigabyte motherboard will only load with XP Professional Service Pack 3 or later, I only have service pack 1. Believe it or not ??
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Er do you need help or not?
If you need help, then please make a new thread in the appropriate section explaining your problem and we'll be happy to help :)
 
Also wanted to input that only Windows XP Professional supports more than one processor or core.
I don't know if it's mentioned what version of XP he had, but if it's Pro, well, he's good in the processor department :D
 
lucasbytegenius said:
Also wanted to input that only Windows XP Professional supports more than one processor or core.
I don't know if it's mentioned what version of XP he had, but if it's Pro, well, he's good in the processor department :D
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That is simply incorrect. All versions of XP SP2 or later support multicore CPUs. XP Pro is the only one that supports multiple discrete processors, however this is not applicable here.
 
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bigfellla said:
That is simply incorrect. All versions of XP SP2 or later support multicore CPUs. XP Pro is the only one that supports multiple discrete processors, however this is not applicable here.
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Ah, well, I read the EULA for both OSs and I thought it took cores as discrete processors, sorry my mistake :o
 
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