ambroseg1

Yip. Oversight on my part for not including that key piece of info. Thank you very much for all your patience and assistance nonetheless. You guys on this forum really are great!

PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4380&CC_0101That's IDE emulation mode. No SATA drivers required. OS default drivers support this machine. The BSOD 7b refers to another reason: e.g. USB boot device It's a Dell. Read FAQ 3 http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/116766-faqs/ We have a winner. Modified the ntdetect.com file (as per the link) and took a gamble and used the USB again to try and install the normal OEM Dell windows xp service pack 3. Windows XP is now finally loaded on my Dell OptiPlex 320. Such a simple solution, but one I would have never come across if it were not for this community. Thank you from the bottom of my heart to every person who helped in this thread. You guys really are a wonderful help and I do appreciate every single post in this thread. Thanks again!!!!

PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4380&CC_0101That's IDE emulation mode. No SATA drivers required. OS default drivers support this machine. The BSOD 7b refers to another reason: e.g. USB boot device It's a Dell. Read FAQ 3 http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/116766-faqs/ You think I should try booting from a CD??

I am using RUFUS to make the USB bootable from an ISO image created by nLite. Wanting to install 32bit version (x86) of windows XP.

Will do a screenshot when I get home and post. Currently at work. I am installing (trying) windows XP from a USB. Does it make a difference whether its from a burnt CD or USB?

Thanks a million for the help. But I don't see a txtoem file, so I think these are pnp drivers and NOT textmode drivers which is what I need.

Yes sir. Windows 7 32 bit installed with zero problems from USB. Many missing drivers still need to be installed like Video, but it installed and works nonetheless. Just using generic VGA driver for video.

If it's not too much trouble, could you upload this driver here so I can download it and try it? The ATlide.inf driver is a pnp driver and not a TextMode driver. Would the pnp work for a windows XP install as I thought only TextMode drivers worked??

Have tried Slipstreaming Fernando's drivers via NLite without success and the exact same BSOD. And yes, Dell only provide a PNP driver for when windows XP is already installed (suppose nobody at Dell thought that far to first provide the driver to get Windows XP installed to start with). Besides that they are of zero help.

Have tried slipstreaming the Mass Storage Drivepack via Driverpack Base and that also didn't work. Same BSOD.

This is what CPU-Z says about the "IDE Controller" Description IDE Controller Location bus 0 (0x00), device 20 (0x14), function 1 (0x01) Common header Vendor ID 0x1002 Model ID 0x438C Revision ID 0x00 PI 0x80 SubClass 0x01 BaseClass 0x01 Cache Line 0x10 Latency 0x40 Header 0x00 PCI header Address 4 (port) 0x0000FFA0 Subvendor ID 0x1028 Subsystem ID 0x01E5 Int. Line 0x0A Int. Pin 0x01 PCI capability Caps class Message Signalled Interrupts Caps offset 0x70 PCI registers 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F 00 02 10 8C 43 15 01 30 02 00 80 01 01 10 40 00 00 10 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 20 A1 FF 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 28 10 E5 01 30 00 00 00 00 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0A 01 00 00 40 99 99 00 00 FF FF 00 00 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 50 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 60 00 00 40 00 10 2C 01 07 01 00 00 00 FF FF 0F 00 70 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 90 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 A0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 B0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 C0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 D0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 E0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 F0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Then in Device Manager it says this.... ATA Channel 0 1002-438c Internal_IDE_Channel ATA Channel 0 (SATA Hard Drive Connected here) 1002-4380 Internal_IDE_Channel ATA Channel 1 1002-438c Internal_IDE_Channel ATA Channel 1 (SATA DVD Writer Connected here) 1002-4380 Internal_IDE_Channel Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller Suppose this is the IDE connection PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4380&SUBSYS_01E51028&REV_00 PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4380&SUBSYS_01E51028 PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4380&CC_01018F PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4380&CC_0101 Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller Suppose this is the IDE connection PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_438C&SUBSYS_01E51028&REV_00 PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_438C&SUBSYS_01E51028 PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_438C&CC_010180 PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_438C&CC_0101

Tried that. Used an OEM Dell Windows XP SP 3 CD. Used NLite to select the single driver in the x86 folder. Selected the x86 driver (gave me a choice of two drivers the other being the x64 driver) and used TextMode to integrate. Same BSOD. I am really dumbstruck by this. Especially considering the PC was running windows XP before the hard drive crash.

So I have a Dell OptiPlex 320. Need to re-install windows XP on it. Old hard drive crashed. So brand new hard drive bought which obviously doesn't include Dell's recovery partition. Hard drive is SATA. No option in the Bios to run SATA in "compatibility/IDE" mode. So need to install SATA drivers via slipstreaming into the windows installation using NLite. problem I have, is that not a single driver I could find seems to work. Keep getting the BSOD with the following error: "STOP: OxOOOOOO7B (OxF7BF2524, OxCOOOOO34, OxOOOOOOOO, OxOOOOOOOO)" According to google the OptiPlex's SATA driver is a AMD SB600. Loaded Windows 7 32bit (with zero problems) on the machine to see what CPU-Z says the chipset name is: Northbridge, ATI RS400/RC400/RC410 Rev01. Southbridge, ATI SB600 Rev. 00. Can anybody help? I am officially beat. Just point me to the correct driver so I can finally install windows XP. Cannot believe I have spent over 50 hours looking for a solution without success.

Hi everyone..... All the way from South Africa. Came across this forum while searching for help with a problem I have with a Dell OptiPlex 320. Very informative forum. Hope you guys can help me. Will post about my problem in the appropriate forum. Regards ambroseg1