All sorts of crap assemblies from schoolchildren with modified wallpaper, disabled services and messed up interface is better not to use. Install as normal, and install remaining motherboard/graphics drivers from GUI.Memo for those who want to install Windows XP:ġ) You have to choose a good Windows XP distribution which you want to use as a 'base'. Selected the second option from the list of drivers on the F6 menu. Set BIOS to Legacy ROM and AHCI disk mode Made AHCI driver disk with a USB floppy drive, using the ASUS utility contained within the AHCI driver download from the motherboard support page Stock Microsoft images floating around the internet did not work for me, neither did the zone94 Integral Edition Used Windows XP SP3 x86 Maher's Digital World ISO burnt to CD. This computer isn't going to stay solely as an XP build, and will eventually be turned into a multi-boot configuration with both modern and legacy OS'es using OpenCore, so I would appreciate it please if any long-term solutions could please bear that in mind regarding UEFI and AHCI (hence the absurd amount of seemingly pointless RAM for a 32-bit machine)Īll I want to do is see if a 20 year old printer works so I can use it for a university project! The latest drivers for the printer are for XP, and I've had no luck with trying to get it to work under Windows 10. I'm tearing my hair out with this and could really do with some help, please. I've tried burning a couple of discs already but the burn process failed and I don't want to waste anymore CDs. I have been trying to install with a USB created with 'WinSetupFromUSB-1-10.exe'. Set 'PCI ROM Compatibility' setting under 'Boot' tab in BIOS to 'EFI Compatible ROM' (default was 'Legacy ROM'Īll other settings are set to optimised defaults. Tried booting from another XP Pro disc I had laying around (no idea what SP version unfortunately) with a floppy disk containing the F6 drivers, made using the utility contained within the driver download folder from ASUS

Intel 6 series chipset AHCI driver taken from the download on the motherboard support page on Slipstream (possibly the wrong driver) into the installation with nLite. I have tried the following to resolve the issue, with no luck:

I believe this error code is due to the lack of AHCI drivers in the installation media. I'm having an absolute nightmare trying to get this to work, and keep on getting the same 0x0000007B error on installation.

I'm trying to install Windows XP Pro 32-bit SP3 on my PC with the following components: Steps to resolve at the bottom of this post

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