Am I not allowed to use Windows XP X64?

Priapus

Priapus

Priapus

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Howzit Guys,

I am trying so hard to get Windows XP Pro X64 Bit Edition onto my Shuttle System. Now, I have a Shuttle XPC SN85 G4 V2. nForce 3 150.

Specs of the machine are..

AMD A64 3400+
1Gb DDR PC3200 ram,
2x 160Gb SATA HDD Drives in a SATA RAID0 Config.
X800Xt 256Mb GFX

So, I insert the boot X64 cd into my drive and start to try install XP. However, after the setup has run it says, "Setup did not detect any hard drives connected to your system"

Reason for this is because it can't see my SATA Drives. So I went to Shuttle's web site on a little hunt for X64 bit SATA drivers so that I could load them to the Windows CD when I boot. Like I did with 32Bit Windows Xp Pro. No luck there. :(

So I tried the nVidia web site. They did have the 6.25 drivers. So I downloaded them and extracted them to a folder and loaded drivers onto the CD. I don't think they were the right ones though. Ran setup again, same problem.

So I used the 32Bit drivers on the CD. Setup told me there were un-supported and therefore could not be used. :(

So my question: Is there no way in hell I'm going to get X64 Bit Windows onto my system?

Any suggestions guys?

Many thanks!
 
Unless you can find a SATA driver for x64 it will be impossible.

What chipset is your SATA controller?
 
yup, use the 2nd driver down (if it is the 3112 controller) will work, either unzip it to a floppy and use f6, or use nlite to integrate the driver
 
I hope so!

One quick thing, guys. I know it's been asked so many times. Might have changed now though. is X64 better, would I notice the difference. I dont game a lot, manly with photoshop and other programs....
 
XP x64 is great. The backward compatibility with 32-bit really isn't as crap as people make out. I've never had any problems with it.

I can't say I've ever tried a game on my XP x64 machine at work so can't really comment there.

Personally I chose XP X64 as it is the best workstation OS bar none (well maybe not once Vista x64 has matured in a couple months). It is very fast, handles a lot of memory, has better security and can run several virtual machines without too much impact.
 
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