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Hi http://users.pandora.be/jtdoom/basetute/Eng_tut6b.htm warning DVDRW recommended. important. mass storage 801 has flaws. I personally promise that 801 will get a revision, and that means release of 802 is within two days. Hey, jtdoom .. thanks for your reply. I'll look in to the guide you gave me. Now, I hope I can understand it. lol.. thanks man!

Hi, Its me again I managed to solve the txtsetup.oem error However, its a mystery. I had to write protect my Floppy drive. Thats it. I installed Windows and verified I had ICH9 installed correctly. *I found a forum post of a guy having the exact same problem, he also thinks its a mystery. write-protecting the floppy solved his problem. BUT, when I tried to REFORMAT again, just playing around .. To my surprise it gave the same error again (even when right-protected/using the same floppy). I have to reformat my floppy, try again and hope it works. Its intermittent. Right now, after 7 tries of format/write-protect/recopy files to the floppy, it worked! Its so weird. I think the slipstream method is better. But I don't know how to do it. @Vascoman, how did you manage to integrate those files in your Windows XP installation CD? Can you give us some basic details on how to do this? Thanks again VascoMAN and Punto! You both rock!

@VascoMan Thanks for your reply. I now tried your method .. Just to let you this is how I did it (please point out my mistake): 1) Extracted the files from Step 1 2) Edited iaahci.inf and TXTSETUP.OEM 3) Copied all the files you mentioned 4) Restared my PC, enabled AHCI in bios and native 0-1 ... 4.1) set boot order CDROM, HDD 5) Booted from my Windows XP cd, pressed F6 6) Pressed "S" and press Enter key when asked (floppy thing) 7) Did some reading noise from the floppy (which seems good) 8) Error: File txtsetup.oem caused an unexpected error (1024) at line 1747 in d:\nt\base\boot\setup\oemdisk.c. Press any key to continue ... 9) Pressed a key 10) 0x000007B BSOD I also tried using my Windows XP home CD and gives a similar message exect d:\xpsp2 < something instead of d:\nt\base... Where did I go wrong? THanks for your help.

Hi, Thank you for this guide However, I'm having problems I strickly followed your guide but I failed It always result to BSOD 0x0000007B I extracted the IASTOR.SYS and copied it to System32\drivers Created the registry file and ran it. REbooted, changed to AHCI and Native 0-1 (enabled) save and restart ... and BAM! BSOD I have a GA-P35-DS3L rev 2.0 F5 Bios Where did I go wrong? BTW, my SATA hdd and SATA DVDRW is connected at port 0 and 1 of this board. THank you. EDIT: Could it be the BIOS? To the owners of the P35-DS3L boards that made this work, what's your BIOS version? TY EDIT2: I forgot to ask the most important question Is there a method on installing AHCI in this ICH9 PC .. BEFORE installing Windows? I'm thinking of reformatting and I was hoping I could just install it without hacking drivers. Is that possible? Or I don't have any choice but to install XP in IDE mode first then follow this guide, then enable AHCI in bios? Thank you!