Max Dread

Hi all I'm going to be re-installing my OS soon and am planning on using a pre-configured nLite/SP3 installation that can be found here: (Be warned, this thread is very long!) The thread has pretty much dried up now, so I thought I would post a query here. The guy has incorporated all the common AHCI and RAID drivers into the install...but I plan to set up my SATA drives as emulated IDE drives, as i have not love for AHCI/RAID at the moment. So will this cause any problems? Because the drivers have been incorporated with nLite, will they automatically install the AHCI/RAID drivers? Or will it depend how the HDs are set up in the BIOS? Let me know if anymore info is needed. My mobo is an Intel DP35DP. Cheers Max

Hi there I remember looking into this issue several months ago - back when SP3 was still in its final beta stages, and around the time the RTM was first released... At the time I wanted to know what I had to do seeing as I only have an original "gold" XP Pro disc (i.e. no service packs). My googling led me to a lot of confusion and heated debate! Some were sure that you could use nLite to slipstream SP3 directly onto a "Gold" XP, whilst others were adamant that you had to use nLite to slipstream SP2 onto the "Gold" XP before slipstreaming SP3 otherwise it would lead to problems. A lot of the debate centred around MS's acknowledgement that unlike other SP's, SP3 was not cumulative. Now that a few months have passed, I wondered what the consensus is. Is there still disagreement about this? Or is there a definitive answer? Would appreciate any views or comments. Cheers Max