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It took 2 hard and troubled days to achieve that installation and it went unlike described the most guidances i found in the web. I did have a USB installation stick (Windows 7 x64) with USB3 drivers already Dism-integrated (with which several installations on standard SATA SSDs went well before). As preliminary, i copied the file C:\Windows\Boot\EFI\bootmgfw.efi (of a running system) to the USD-drives \EFI\BOOT\ folder and renamed it bootx64.efi (bcause it was missing on mine, see here). It needed two different .inf NVMe drivers from Fernandos's NVMe driver site: - Phison's (WHQL-signed) "pure" generic 64bit NVMe driver v1.5.0.0 (link) - and the (unsigned!) original NVMe driver for Samsung’s NVMe SSDs (link) 1) Copy the (four) files of the Phison generic driver to the Inst-USB (for example in a folder x_Phison) 2) Dism-integrate the Samsumg driver to install.wim (section 3 "Professional" in my case). Since the Samsung's driver isn't signed, you have to use the option /ForceUnsigned. Only that single driver and only to install.wim, nothing else! No KB2990941-v3, no KB3087873-v2: Integrating those hotfixes always made the setup impossible because then it asked for CD-/DVD drivers at the very beginning of the setup, so it wasn't possible to start the insallation at all. All other NVMe drivers (including the Phison generic!!) that i integrated to install.wim did cause a 0x0000007B bsod at the first boot after the installation! That's it. Set the Boot-Mode to UEFI in the Z170 motherboards Bios and start installing Windows. When it comes to the point where the target-partition is to be selected, simply load the Phison driver from the stick: it recognises the 970 NVMe and its (before prepared MBR) partitions perfectly so you may select the target-partition for Win 7 and finish the installation. In my case it even was a a dual-boot situation: beside Windows XP on the primary partition I found one other guy (AbsoluteZero, here) who had a very similar situation. Maybe this small guidance may help to avoid big efforts, trouble and frustrations in the future for some others... Good Luck, M.

Sice the discussion is getting more and more ot, here is my ot contribution: there's a new hymn for Serpent: https://clementnourry.bandcamp.com/track/serpent-2

Yyyess and many thanks again @Dietmar! It did take some time for me to remember, that my nice&cheap Chieftec LT-01B indeed has a hole in the assembly area for the mobo. So it was easyly possible to mount the 970 Evo and (Xx)clone the XP system partition (from a backup harddisk) on it. To be on the safe side, i cloned the mbr and bootsector to the NVMe too. Never saw XP booting fast like that , but i was quite nervous if it would boot up the Z170 Lenovo Yoga too... well, it does! Exactly 12 (twelve) dialogs of new hardware appear, the screen res (2560x1440 native -> 1024x768) is horrible, and there is no sound: unfortunately the engineers opted for a Conexant Soundchip and i haven't found an appropriate driver for XP (one for older Lenovo notebooks didn't work). But hey, i'm so happy to have a booting and working XP partition on the Yoga initially, now boring Win7 and Debian can follow for a nice tri-boot... Edit: But what the heck is the cause for that halt during installation then, if a system - created with the same USB-install-stick - does run flawlessly once copied ??

Did you try: Edit -> Folder Properties -> Repair Folder ? This saved my a.. lately (in context with threads).

Many thanks @Dietmar: Now that i read your reply i think to remember, that you've chosen such an approach in the past months too... I do not have the equipment to make an install on a normal harddisk for this notebook, but a similar z170 board here, the Gigabyte Mini-ITX z170, and i could try to (Xx)clone the XP partition to the NVMe. Unfortunately it's m.2 NVMe interface is on it's backside (unaccessable at the moment) - but maybe i can utilize an adapter like this: https://www.delock.de/produkt/62864/merkmale.html Currently there is an offer of such an adapter at "kleinanzeigen" (for 4 Euros )... Have a nice day!

Hello, i'm trying to install XP-32 SP3 on a 2016 Lenovo Yoga X1 20FQ (1, Gen) with Intel Skylake-U PCH, Core i7-6500U cpu, internal HD520 graphics and an M.2 NVMe (970 Evo). I (erroneously) thought this should be a simple routine, since the installation on a similar (Gigabyte Z170, Core-i5) system went absolutely flawlessly, but there occured several issues (additional info's below), Currently the installation process halts after i confirmd the dialog "Computername and Admin-Password". There is "No Response" (see picture below). @Dietmar and all other specialist: is here a possibility to identify the problem? Has anyone else had a halt at this special state before? Many thanks in advance! ----- I actually utilized the same USB stick wich worked perfectly on the Gigabyte system with a standard SSD: a (german) "Patch-Integrated (2023) v3.4.6 (2,3,4,5,A,B,C,H)" 32 bit iso. In the first two runs i had problems at the "34 minutes" state. (Interesting enough: after opening the console and studying the results of setupapi.log carefully i discovered, that the installation hadn't stopped at all, it had become only ridiculously slow!) To pass that phase of the installation i - deactivated any peripherals possible (Camera, Bluetouth, Network, Cardslots, etc, even Hyperthreading) - as well as Intels Virtualisations - set anything to "Legacy over UEFI" i found in the (Phoenix) Bios - and copied the complete i386 installation folder on a free partition of the NVMe. Btw. i partitioned the NVMe in MBR mode, since a prior attempt with gpt partitions failed completely at the very beginning: they weren't recognised by the ,patch integrated' installer. The Windows, Programs and "Documents & Configuration" folders are present. Trackpad, USB3 slot (in which i put the install-stick in), keybourd and a mouse are working without any issues. The HD520 and the screen (native res is 2560x1440) are emulating the lower resolutions nicely.

Concernes MailNews: A month ago i received a mail (a) with important conent. Yesterdy i forworded that mail to another recipient. That recipient now responded to me - mail (b). This new mail (b) now was shown in mailnews only ,under' the first mail (a). But those two senders (of mail (a) and (b)) have nothing to do with each other, so i wondered how to dissolve that unmeant connection. I tried right-clicking on both mails and tried "Ignore Thread" and "Ignore Subthread". But nothing happend. After having restarted mailnews later i noticed that both mails now are away. Not in the trash but really away. Luckily both mails still reside on the server - (how) is it possiple to reload them? And for the future: is it possible to dissolve such unwanted threads safely? Edit: under Inbox -> right-click -> Properties there's a button "Repair Folder" which resolved the issue! But the question - is it possible to seperate mails from an unwanted ,thread' - remains: those two mails have nothing to do with each other...

Thank you @Jody Thornton, MailNews(32 bit) runs nicely in both of my Windows environments, XP/32 and Win7/64, but i'll try out Epyrus anyway - since it seems to be maintained slighty stronger.

May i ask you @Jody Thornton, why you did switch, and, which are the (main) advantages. I like the MailNews/TB2 look very much, so, maybe you use the ClassicTB2 Theme for Epyrus coincidentally - does it work fine?

If Serpent looses the session (which happens very rarely) one can also proceed this way: 1. Open at least a second tab, 2. Quit the browser, and 3. Copy the recovery.js in <profile>\sessionstore-backups to sessionstore.js in the <profile> folder. At least this method worked for me (approximately once a year or so).

Thank you - so i did report it here.

Many Thanks @roytam1 and @Mathwiz for your explanations. I didn't expect that a) Serpent diverges from Basilisk that strongly, and b) that changes are taken before they're released in Basilisk in their entirety. Aamof, there is a (leading) german news-site that regularly makes both, Basilisk and Spt_52.9 (, in Windows & linux) stop working; welt.de: the page renders completely normally, but if i open links under "SCHLAGZEILEN" (headlines) in a new tab, the browsers run hot and freeze. One has to kill the appication/process.

Hello @roytam1, there was a "major development, bugfix, stability and security release" of Basilisk yesterday (see here) with a lot of changes and fixes. Just curious: none of them relevant/applicable for Spt_52.9, or did that update simply come some hours too late for your build? Thank you and have a nice sunday!

Yea, i've had already the suspicion - Kepler forever . Currently i'm looking for an active cooled Zotac GT 730 GDDR5: passive GT-7x0's get too hot and the GTX 7xx are exaggerated for my purposes.

Hi @Dietmar, (how) did you achieve to have the internal (?) graphics (Alderlake UHD) supported with XP/3?? Or have you added an external?