Windows XP with slipstreamed AHCI drivers not working

mrochester

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Hi all

I've just got a new P67 motherboard and my hard drives are all connected to the standard SATA2 ports. I've slipstreamed the Intel AHCI drivers into the Windows XP installation disk and I've managed to boot from it and successfully select and format the drive I want to install XP on. It then successfully copies the setup files. However, it's when I reboot for the setup process to continue that I get a blue screen with error code Stop: 0x0000007B which to me would mean the installation drive cannot be accessed by the installation. However, as the drive has already been accessed during the initial stages of setup as above, I don't know how to proceed now.

Has anyone got any ideas?

Many thanks

M.
 
Has anyone got an ideas?

I'm really struggling to proceed as I can't install Windows 7 until I've got XP installed and I've been trying for 3 hours now to get a driver slipstreamed that works both in the initial setup and the main XP installation.

When slipstreaming the driver, I'm using the driver CD that came with my new motherboard (Asus P8P67 LE) and I have tried using both the iastor and iaahci driver. Within that I have tried selecting all available options and just the Intel 5 series 6 port controller and the Intel Desktop/Workstation/Server Express Chipset SATA AHCI controller, all without success.

Has anyone got any idea what I'm supposed to select or how else to proceed?

Many thanks

M.
 
As far as I am aware, Intel did not bring out a ACHI driver for the motherboard. But you can select IDE mode on your motherboard, because win XP does not like ACHI mode. Intel did bring out a SATA driver for XP, to allow SATA drives to be used. Could be wrong about the ACHI driver, but let see what other people say.
 
robinbredin said:
As far as I am aware, Intel did not bring out a ACHI driver for the motherboard. But you can select IDE mode on your motherboard, because win XP does not like ACHI mode. Intel did bring out a SATA driver for XP, to allow SATA drives to be used. Could be wrong about the ACHI driver, but let see what other people say.
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I've got a WinXP installation CD with my previous motherboard's AHCI driver slipstreamed and that installed without any hitch (also an Intel chipset, P35) so I know it is possible!
 
And the simplest approach is the one that works! My old motherboard didn't allow a USB floppy drive to be used to load additional drivers during the XP setup. So of course, I didn't think to try that approach again with my new motherboard right away, but lo and behold, it works perfectly fine, and my XP installation is finally underway (6 hours later!).
 
mrbell1984 said:
Don't need to slipstream drivers, why don't you just use a usb stick or a floppy disk to install the drivers.
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Well as per the above post, that's what I did in the end! However, I had thought that it wasn't possible to use a USB drive as that hadn't worked on my old motherboard.
 
mrochester
And the simplest approach is the one that works! My old motherboard didn't allow a USB floppy drive to be used to load additional drivers during the XP setup. So of course, I didn't think to try that approach again with my new motherboard right away, but lo and behold, it works perfectly fine, and my XP installation is finally underway (6 hours later!).
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Where did you get the ACHI driver from. Thanks
 
mrbell1984 said:
* Windows XP lol.

PS why couldn't you install 7 until you got XP installed? Even if it's an upgrade disk you can still do a fresh install...
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From my experience it's easier to install XP prior to 7 as if you do it the other way around it messes up the dual-boot options. Windows 7 is aware of Windows XP but the reverse isn't true.
 
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