I am knocking up a PC for my father in law and I decided to sort this one out since its a fairly decent setup.
Its been running flawlessly but with Linux, and he wants XP as thats all he knows and so I tried to throw XP onto it, but it moaned about the system not having APIC.
It does. Its also enabled too!
I have had a play about with a number of options and I am really stuck?
Vista and Win7 both simlpy offer me a blacnk screen, while XP32 and 64 both tell me about the issue.
I have not tried F7 yet - I dont want to either for obvious reasons.
The only think that I can think of, is that the bloody thing will perhaps need a BIOS update, however on checking the latest BIOS is 1701 and like a typical fany that I am, I seem to have 1804 installed... Where the hell did I get that from? And anyway, you cannot go backwards with the updates so thats annoying.
Anyway, anyone have any ideas what I can do?
Thanks.
Its been running flawlessly but with Linux, and he wants XP as thats all he knows and so I tried to throw XP onto it, but it moaned about the system not having APIC.
It does. Its also enabled too!
I have had a play about with a number of options and I am really stuck?
Vista and Win7 both simlpy offer me a blacnk screen, while XP32 and 64 both tell me about the issue.
I have not tried F7 yet - I dont want to either for obvious reasons.
The only think that I can think of, is that the bloody thing will perhaps need a BIOS update, however on checking the latest BIOS is 1701 and like a typical fany that I am, I seem to have 1804 installed... Where the hell did I get that from? And anyway, you cannot go backwards with the updates so thats annoying.
Anyway, anyone have any ideas what I can do?
Thanks.