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Enabling AHCI on XP with Panther Point
<!-- / icon and title --><!-- message -->I'm setting up a i5 2300 and a Gigabyte B75m-D3H running a 250gb Velociraptor as a workstation that needs to run XP. So I'm stuck with a 10 year old OS on this install.
I started the old fashion way, using the f6 install of the gigabyte SATA AHCI driver with the correct external floppy. All was recognized, but when it came time to choose the appropriate storage controller the only ones that showed up were the ICH7R/DH, ICH7RMDW, Desktop/Workstation/Server express chipset, and the moble chipset. I started with the Desktop chipset but got the dreaded 0X00000007b error.
In fact none of the controllers would get me past the 7b error.
Next I tried to slipstream my XP sp3 disk. When slipstreaming the driver, I chose the standard 7 series chipset (it would now show up) and after successfully burning the .iso I thought I had it beat. But still no install and the same 7b error came up. By the way I've been wiping the drive after each attempt just in case...
And yes, if I set the bios to ide, the XP will install. I took it as far as setting the partitions no problem.
What gives? As I was researching this I read somewhere that the 7 series chipset will not work with XP in AHCI. Any truth to that?
I've looked for info, even to see if there were any similar z77 issues, but not much can be found. Sure could use some input. I'm out of patience.
<!-- / icon and title --><!-- message -->I'm setting up a i5 2300 and a Gigabyte B75m-D3H running a 250gb Velociraptor as a workstation that needs to run XP. So I'm stuck with a 10 year old OS on this install.
I started the old fashion way, using the f6 install of the gigabyte SATA AHCI driver with the correct external floppy. All was recognized, but when it came time to choose the appropriate storage controller the only ones that showed up were the ICH7R/DH, ICH7RMDW, Desktop/Workstation/Server express chipset, and the moble chipset. I started with the Desktop chipset but got the dreaded 0X00000007b error.
In fact none of the controllers would get me past the 7b error.
Next I tried to slipstream my XP sp3 disk. When slipstreaming the driver, I chose the standard 7 series chipset (it would now show up) and after successfully burning the .iso I thought I had it beat. But still no install and the same 7b error came up. By the way I've been wiping the drive after each attempt just in case...
And yes, if I set the bios to ide, the XP will install. I took it as far as setting the partitions no problem.
What gives? As I was researching this I read somewhere that the 7 series chipset will not work with XP in AHCI. Any truth to that?
I've looked for info, even to see if there were any similar z77 issues, but not much can be found. Sure could use some input. I'm out of patience.
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