Can you run Win XP3 on an Athlon X4 740X

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After the usual win 8 upgrade hazards found that I could no longer run my Pro Tools recording studio. So I decided it was cheaper to build another Music PC to run XP3 than pay out £500 for the new pro tools
This turned out to be quite difficult.
I used a Gigabyte F2A88XM-D3H & was told by Gigabyte to use a Trinity cpu so I got an AthlonX4 740X.
Although this goes through the bios setup it falls over during Win XP3 setup with a STOP: error.
Saying, check your disks, check for viruses etc. These hard disks have been running ok before the upgrade although the system disk is partitioned.
Has anybody got any advice on this.
 
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You should be getting error 0x0000007b because your SATA controller is in SATA mode and the old system was in IDE mode. If you can set the SATA controller in IDE mode, then it should boot XP.

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I'm going to give you a quick and dirty guess: It might be missing SATA drivers on the XP install disk. You may have to install SATA drivers through the install process - there is a pause where you can press F6 (?) but you have to have a floppy disk for that. Or you can use something like the nLite tool to slipstream the drivers onto the Windows Install DVD.
 
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As mentioned above by Karsten75, the problem is that Windows XP lack SATA drivers. When Win XP was released all hard drives used the now mostly abandoned EIDE interface. However, PC technology never stands still for too long and now the SATA interface has become the norm. Because there are no SATA drivers on the Win XP install disk it will not recognize any SATA HDD.

But all is not lost. Below is an article from 2007 that basically tells you what you need to do in order to combine SATA drivers and Win XP into one disc so that you can install Win XP onto a SATA HDD.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Install-Windows-XP-On-SATA-Without-a-Floppy-F6-47807.shtml
 
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Thanks for your help. You could possibly be right. But the Gigabyte board appears to have an on board SATA chip which might cause conflict.with XP. I still have the old installation of winXP on the hard drive which will start but crashes quickly. The sata cd drive runs ok. & the XP install CD runs nearly to the point where you get the selection window; install,abort,repair before STOP:error


 
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You should be getting error 0x0000007b because your SATA controller is in SATA mode and the old system was in IDE mode. If you can set the SATA controller in IDE mode, then it should boot XP.

 
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Just know that IDE speeds are maxed out at 130 Mbps. SATA speeds cut in at 150 Mbps for the initial and for modern SATA drives its up to 600 Mbps. So running SATA drives in EIDE or IDE compatibility mode will really hurt performance.

 
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No hard disk can sustain transfer at up to 600 Mbps; not even the fastest 15K RPM drives. Please don't confuse interface speed with throughput. Using IDE mode barely hurts a smaller hard disk performance and it allows for easy XP instalaltion.
 
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Looking back at my post, I nowhere see the word "sustain". Nowhere do I see hard drive sizes mentioned in any prior post.

I am well aware that the interface speed is not necessarily. Many applications in music and digital image processing do better with better performing I/O subsystems. Since the OP mentioned Pro Tools Recording Studio, I thought I'd put out there that IDE drives are slower than SATA drives by any measure you'd care to take.

But let it be. Only by a stroke of luck will either of us pick up a subsequent post by the OP that complains about stuttering in his recordings.
 
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