- May 27, 2013
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System specs: AMD FX-6300; ASUS M5A97 2.0 MB; Sapphire Radeon HD 5450 video card; WD Black 1TB HD; 2 sticks of Mushkin 2GB DDR3 1600; Arctic A30 CPU cooler.
The problem is, I can’t install XP to this system. I’m migrating from a dual boot system, with XP on the first partition and Win 7 on the other. I was hoping I could just swap the HD into the new system, so I tried cloning my old HD to the new HD. When I put the cloned drive into the new system, I could boot into Win 7, but not XP. I assume this is because of the AHCI issue. I have the MB AHCI drivers, but I just could not get XP to work in normal mode. (But I could get into Safe Mode.)
So I figured I’d have to bite the bullet and re-install XP. (I need to upgrade a couple of other computers running XP, so I don’t want to just abandon XP at this point.) I started with a clean install (and at one point in the process even wiped the HD). With the BIOS set for IDE, I get BDOS’s during setup, which I assume is because of the AHCI problem. With the BIOS set to AHCI, and loading the MB AHCI drivers, I get into the XP setup process, but when it gets to Installing Devices, I get a BSOD, which is different from the others. This one says IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL, pointing to 0X0000000A (0X00000010, 2X00000002, 0X00000000, 0X80523E78). This has happened three or four times now. This seems to be a driver issue, but I’ve never had this problem before installing XP. And it worked fine when I booted in Win 7 with the original cloned HD.
Any ideas?
The problem is, I can’t install XP to this system. I’m migrating from a dual boot system, with XP on the first partition and Win 7 on the other. I was hoping I could just swap the HD into the new system, so I tried cloning my old HD to the new HD. When I put the cloned drive into the new system, I could boot into Win 7, but not XP. I assume this is because of the AHCI issue. I have the MB AHCI drivers, but I just could not get XP to work in normal mode. (But I could get into Safe Mode.)
So I figured I’d have to bite the bullet and re-install XP. (I need to upgrade a couple of other computers running XP, so I don’t want to just abandon XP at this point.) I started with a clean install (and at one point in the process even wiped the HD). With the BIOS set for IDE, I get BDOS’s during setup, which I assume is because of the AHCI problem. With the BIOS set to AHCI, and loading the MB AHCI drivers, I get into the XP setup process, but when it gets to Installing Devices, I get a BSOD, which is different from the others. This one says IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL, pointing to 0X0000000A (0X00000010, 2X00000002, 0X00000000, 0X80523E78). This has happened three or four times now. This seems to be a driver issue, but I’ve never had this problem before installing XP. And it worked fine when I booted in Win 7 with the original cloned HD.
Any ideas?
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