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@casey My tutorial and all files that are needed for XP SP3 and bit64 XP SP2 USB install via Firadisk can be found in den last XP from Ramsey Dietmar

@Mark-XP After a really loong search I buy this PC Tower new SilverStone SETA D1 It has 4x 5.25 slot extern and a lot of possibilities to change all the cases for HD etc. Dietmar

Hi, I do a lot of search for a new tower for any motherboard, that has the Hot Plug (hot swap) possibility for a 3.5 HD. The Corsair 800D and 900D have it, but only the 800D at its front side. To integrate a Hot Plug case into the tower as the 900D did, is for me without any sense. And I do not want any screws, as the Server Tower Supermicro SC745 // CSE-745 has. Crazy search without any success. Modern tower even dont have any 5.25 slots because of no optical drive. But then I come to the idea to use such a tower with a free 5.25 slot. Waaooh.., her it is: Icy Dock MB795SP-B Speicherlaufwerksgehäuse 2.5/3.5" HDD / SSD-Gehäuse Schwarz (MB795SP-B). It sits in a 5.25 case, has place for a 2.5 and a 3.5 Sata harddisk. AND you can switch them off individually, without disconnecting. They have one power connection, but both Sata connectors are separate. So it is just connected as a normal Sata harddrive. This is near to an ideal solution for me, tell me your thoughts and experiance Dietmar "MB795SP-B"

@Svyatpro I can confirm this black screen via USB install of XP SP3. I use Firadisk for this, which works mostly. Here not. On some other notebooks I have seen the same behavior. It is the fault of USB implementation on this chipset Haswell. Install of XP SP3 on this nice notebook works only(!) via real burned XP SP3 CD in its DVD slot. Then, I get everything to work under XP SP3 on this notebook from Dell M4800. Waaooh, it is the fastest notebook, that I have ever seen fro XP Dietmar

@reboot12 Hi, "However, it is possible to boot in UEFI32" does this mean, that now we can boot XP SP3 with graphic on a compi, that has only 64 bit UEFI (no CSM at all) Dietmar

@Svyatpro The problem can be the USB. I make the same experiance of hanging at "Windows is starting" before. Make a try with a real CD-Rom, because this notebook Dell precision m4800 has an DVD drive. Use Ramseys XP SP3 from 29 November 2024 with the settings 5, E, F, M, R good luck Dietmar PS: In Bios you can switch between the 2 graphic cards. This can also be a reason for hanging.

@Svyatpro May be, that full XP SP3 can be installed on this Dell precision m4800 notebook. There are different versions of it. Please tell me all about its hardware, cpu, graphiccard, SSD or HD Dietmar

@reboot12 For XP SP3 bit32 you can also use https://msfn.org/board/topic/179059-acpi-patcher-at-boot-time/#comment-1165701 https://github.com/MovAX0xDEAD/ACPI-Patcher for to use a modded DSDT during boottime. No modd in Bios itself! This is a crazy effective way, for to start any compi with original acpi.sys. Until now, I do not see a single compi, where this methode does not work. But it is only for XP SP3 bit32 until now. Would be a nice project, to enable this also for XP SP2 bit64. We have to ask @Mov AX, 0xDEAD for help for this Dietmar

@reboot12 Yes. This is a crazy behavior of the underlying DSDT table. In summer 2019 we check everything for XP SP3 about USB3 on modern compi. And we can see, that the nearly only reason, why there was no USB3 on modern compis, is a crazy sleeping order in DSDT. All manufacturers try to put XP out of the market and so they come to this "genius" idea. This comes together with acpi2.0 version. But it does not depend on acpi.sys itself. But for to overcome this sleeping order, you have to use the modded acpi.sys or to modd the DSDT in Bios for to get a working USB3 Dietmar

@reboot12 No. The original acpi.sys works with USB3. The modded acpi.sys is only needed, because most compis with USB3 have acpi tables >1.b, which means unknown opcode for the original acpi.sys from XP SP3 Dietmar PS: I just test on the Lenovo Q180 above. This compi has USB3 and it works with any USB3 driver (Renesas, AMD 145 from Daniel, USB3 from @Mov AX, 0xDEAD ) and the original acpi.sys from XP SP3.

@casey If the modded acpi.sys is better than the original acpi.sys from XP SP3 depends on for what you use it. When you have a notebook, I think in any case the modded one is the better choice. When you run win10 on your compi, you may see some more devices in Device Manager, because of the OS hack in this modded acpi.sys. In most cases for a desktop compi before 2015, you will see no difference at all. I just test this on a Lenovo Q180 from 2012 with D2550 cpu and AMD Radeon 6450 , same result Dietmar

@casey A Bios Update or Downgrade may help. But any operation with Bios is a risk Dietmar

@casey Hi, disable everything in Bios, that you dont need for boot. All USB, sound, network, internal graphik, use graphik card, etc. Dietmar PS: I did it for myself on this crazy q1900 board. Step by step I also disabled everything in Device Manager of XP SP3. "Now I have also sound on full ACPI Multiprocessor XP SP3 on the Q1900m board. For this I have to disable "Microsoft UAA-Bustreiber für High Definition Audio" in Device Manager and after this to enable "Microsoft UAA-Bustreiber für High Definition Audio" again, crazy."

@casey At the moment, this upload does not work for me. But this acpi.sys is now also in the XP from Ramsey, good luck Dietmar

@Damnation Oh nice, how did you achieve this? Do you change something in the Source Tables from XP SP1 via @Mov AX, 0xDEAD ? I changed soso much in my last acpi.sys, I cant remember all. When you get a special Bsod, I can look for this Dietmar