Anyone ACTUALLY running XP on 810-chipset MOBO ???

(1) Need exact list of drivers employed by the Onboard Display Adapter; and
(2) need advice on BIOS settings - Dell Dimension Version A05 (see below):

ADVANCED SETTINGS

Boot Configuration >
~Plug & Play O/S: <b>Yes</b> or <b>No</b>
~Reset Config Data: <b>Yes</b> or <b>No</b>
~Numlock: <b>On</b> or <b>Off</b>
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Peripheral Configuration >
~Serial Port A: <b>Enabled</b> or <b>Disabled</b> or <b>Auto</b>
~~Base I/O Address: <b>3F8</b> or <b>2F8</b> or <b>3E8</b> or <b>2E8</b>
~~Interrupt: <b>IRQ 4</b> or <b>IRQ 3</b>
~Parallel Port: <b>Enabled</b> or <b>Disabled</b> or <b>Auto</b>
~~Mode: <b>ECP</b> or <b>EPP</b> or <b>Bi-directional</b> or <b>Output only</b>
~Legacy USB Support: <b>Enabled</b> or <b>Disabled</b>
~IRQ5: <b>Reserved</b> or <b>Available</b>
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Video Configuration >
~Primary Video Adapter: <b>PCI</b> or <b>Onboard</b>




"There are more airplanes in the ocean than there are submarines in the sky."

Right you are, Old Chap, right you are! The Intel 810-chipset requires a special set of XP drivers (graphics and otherwise) from Intel to function with XP Home Edition or Professional. My mistake all along was in trusting Dell to have a BIOS functional across the spectrum, but their current generic Dimension A05 BIOS version would not "handshake" with those requisite XP 810-chipset drivers from Intel - as a last resort, I went directly to Intel for a BIOS update (which is actually counter to Intel's own counsel) only to find out support for the 810-chipset was discontinued - but, there was a "retiree" archive that held the latest applicable version (they are all the way up to AA12 now).

Popped that "suckah" in and all my troubles went away.

"There are more airplanes in the ocean than there are submarines in the sky."<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by El_Pescador on 02/13/04 03:52 AM.</EM></FONT></P>