Hey guys, I have an old nforce chipset 650i on an msi p6n sli mobo and am having issues installing and getting to the desktop of Windows XP 32 bit I do not have an ahci setting in bios. Basically the first issue was that I couldn't get past the reboot when windows copied the files over until I installed drivers through msi using nlite. Once I installed the drivers it can go through the process of loading and installing and when it reboots it goes to the windows flag then bluescreens super fast, so fast I can't see the error. I did happen to see other blue screens during the install process: one was irq not less than or equal other was a stop that was a bunch of 0's ending with like 7b or 7c. I am pretty sure it has something to do with the chipset or the controller of the drive. I have tried multiple drives with the same issue. I am about to throw in the towel and give up but I figured this would be my last resort I have tried special drivers from fernando and his nforce4 with the same issues.

Are there any other settings I should be trying to find in bios? I have had xp installed before but I can't remember if it was on an IDE drive. I don't get why it goes through the install process if the drive can't be found later. Perhaps the drivers aren't being installed on the actual windows install and is just used for booting from windows install cd I created?

'Windows XP. Windows XP does not provide drivers for all the SATA controllers, therefore, during the installation procedure, the user must insert a floppy with the drivers that came in the package along with the motherboard.'

In installing XP it requires during setup (after hitting F6 and S) that I install the SATA drivers using a floppy drive (A). I haven't had the need nor. When i first installed windows and what not i had a floppy drive installed. I need to do a windows repair and to do so i need to install these external sata drivers.

' if you read through this to the part of ' insert the SATA drivers within the installation package, you need to have it saved on the HDD. Hence, when the warning window appears click OK and select the destination folder for the files to be saved. How To Install Football Manager 2009 Without Steam here. Make sure that the destination partition / HDD has enough space to store the contents of the installation CD.' ' you may can use a usb pendrive if its recognized and get the files needed from there near the same steps as with the floppy or as there sais about the the rest just point it to the pendrive /files? Best I can do on that. 'Windows XP. Windows XP does not provide drivers for all the SATA controllers, therefore, during the installation procedure, the user must insert a floppy with the drivers that came in the package along with the motherboard.'

' if you read through this to the part of ' insert the SATA drivers within the installation package, you need to have it saved on the HDD. Hence, when the warning window appears click OK and select the destination folder for the files to be saved.

Make sure that the destination partition / HDD has enough space to store the contents of the installation CD.' ' you may can use a usb pendrive if its recognized and get the files needed from there near the same steps as with the floppy or as there sais about the the rest just point it to the pendrive /files? Best I can do on that Thanks for the quick respons I thought that was similar to what I did with using nLight. I basically included the drivers to boot. In fact before I did this I could go only as far and loading windows file on disk and could never get to the install. After adding drivers to the xp install I was then able to actually get to the installing windows screen.

The issue after that is that it installs, but I cant get to the desktop, it just crashes. I will try to rebuild once more (have created about 10 install disks this far) to see if it works, but I really doubt it.

Is this a retail copy of xp from Microsoft or something you just downloaded? Don't know seeing you did say it fully installed and worked on the ide drive? So then whats wrong with using the ide drive?? Today even with my sata drives I still set them in the bios for ide [have you tried that?

] I don't use ahci at all with any of my platter drives?? You cant install windows on another computer and just move ti to another computer its tied to the computers motherboard it was installed on. Also just looking are these the drivers you try to add in the install?? 'System & Chipset Drivers ' not the 'System & Chipset Drivers ' I think that's just for setting up raid 32 been a long time since I had to fool with any of that - sorry. Thanks again Junkey. The ide is one of two backups. The whole reason I am going back to xp is to see if a certain program is more stable.