Damnation

Oh, OK.

@Dietmar Isn't it just a normal LGA1151 socket on that board? Just use any LGA1151 cooler.

@Dietmar On the topic of NICs, I have an industrial ETX carrier board that has a late revision Realtek 8168 chipset (Rev. 15) that I would like to try and get working in Windows 98 SE. It works just fine in XP with Realtek's XP driver but transporting that same driver over to 98 causes a BSOD in NDIS.VXD, and the 98 driver on Realtek's website just gives a yellow exclamation mark if I install it, so I'd like to try and make a win98 driver following your example. Can you link me to the hardware documentation you've been using to make this these drivers?

@Dietmar I added an RTC8125.rc resources file to your project just for the aesthetics, it's nicer with one. https://buzzheavier.com/ziftf00d8rg9 Also, when I build this with the windows 7 DDK - I got an inconsistent DLL linking error in NdisMInitializeScatterGatherDma and had to use #pragma warning(disable:4273) to get it to compile. Is that normal?

@reboot12 Can you send me the links in your symbols_links.txt? I don't have them all.

@Dietmar Nice work!

@reboot12 Does disabling and reenabling the NIC get it working again?

@Dietmar Sorry for my late reply. My NIC deviceID is PCI\VEN_10EC&DEV_8125&CC_0200 I'm using an ASRock B550 Steel Legend.

@Dietmar Do you think you'd be able to make a similar driver for realtek 2.5gb NICs at some point in the future? I don't have any hardware with intel i219 NICs.

@George King Is XP2ESD still being worked on? or not anymore?

@UsefulAGKHelper Setup an XP VM and run it from in there, that's how I do it.

@UsefulAGKHelper https://web.archive.org/web/20230517185040/https://anonfiles.com/J1W9H1a8y1/W2003_tools_update_7z

Is this the same issue that the XP HAL timer patch addresses?

@CommanderKeen Try XP Integral Edition. That should work.

It's odd that USB 3.0 isn't working, it should. Graphics wise you'll be limited to 2D with the generic VBEMP driver, unless you've got a PCI-E slot.

@Dietmar There is one under releases - https://github.com/FlyGoat/csmwrap/releases/tag/1.0.0

@Dietmar @reboot12 @Mov AX, 0xDEAD I discovered this today. https://github.com/FlyGoat/csmwrap Hopefully this means we can boot XP x86 on UEFI class 3 systems now.

@Dietmar Can you check if HWINFO32 spits out garbage BIOS data with the latest acpi.sys 7777? It might be just a windows 2000 specific issue, but would like to verify.

@Dibya This is the latest one I have, might be out of date though. https://easyupload.io/tlms4s

@Comos That registry fix applies to XP too.

@Tecchie Make sure to use the x64 acpi.sys, the x86 acpi.sys won't work on XP x64.

@Dietmar From what I've found on Gigabytes website. https://www.gigabyte.com/WebPage/917/amd600-bios.html On the Favorites (F11) page. AMD at least still has CSM. (It might only apply to 600 series and not 800 series chipsets though) edit: https://www.gigabyte.com/WebPage/1081/amd800-bios.html All good, CSM support still there on the Main Menu page.

@Dietmar Have you tried running XP on Arrow Lake?

Unless someone makes a kernelex for XP, it won't work.

@Dietmar @reboot12 Have either of you given quibble a go to see if it can boot XP32 in UEFI64? https://github.com/maharmstone/quibble