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Hallo @Dietmar, coincidently i'was struggeling hardly the last days to get running a Java Dev setup here on my XP/32 bit machine. 12 years ago i've done my last (private, nice) Java project, with eclipse 3.5 (Galileo) and JDK/JRE 6.18! Nowadays it seems hardly feasable to create a portable, 32 bit setup of eclipse/Java, a true nightmare... Currently i'm stuck with combi Eclipse 4.9 x32 [Portable] and OpenJDK Temurin Portable 32-bit - unfortunately the latter seems to not work on XP-32... Now, latest netbeans portable that i find is version 8.0... Did you get your Netbeans 16(32bit) from here? Hopefully i can finally manage to get a working Java-IDE here the next days and join and participate your interesting topic here, until now it sadly was more a monologue hope to be able to change that soon...

Hello @NT-Five (not to confuse with @NT Five ) and welcome to the Forum! The MSI H61M-P31 should be an ideal platform for any XP multimedia etc system... - eventually an NVMe seems slightly exagarated, at least for me standard SSD are suffucent in speed in any situation. - You can find different SATA/AHCI drivers here and find out which one fits best for your situation. the Patch Integrator 3.4.0 is applicable for any personal XP-inst.Iso: you either may rename your iso to "Windows XP Professional SP3 x86 - Integral Edition 2022.9.9 (Vanilla).iso" temoraryly and substitute the one inside or you manage to extract the drivers and include them to your .iso with nlite. Best wishes for your project!

Now i thought a little about the situation and remembered, that the i219-V is working well on the Win-7 (64) partition of the system disk. Having learned a little bit about the .sys drivers i took a look at the Win7-Version and that made me somewhat pessimistic: since in Win7 e1d62x64.sys the are 5 occurancies of B5 15 (id of 1219-V). in ,our' Version we've got only three. (In the 32-bit e1d6232.sys i counted even 6). So i conclude that there is done a bit more (in the Win7 driver) to get it working. Hence i'm less otimistic about the feasibility of this ,project' and beg you, Sir @Mov AX, 0xDEAD, not to waste too much time and efforts with it! Nevertheless, here is the Win7 (32) versions of the driver (for a swift view): e1d6232_Win7.sys

Thanks @Mov AX, 0xDEAD! And for sure, here it is: e1d5132.219.sys

Many Thanks @Mov AX, 0xDEAD: meanwhile i tested the 15B8 [(2) 219-V] patched e1d5132 but it ended with error code 10 again. Now i'll analyse your (disassembled?) code and read the linux approach you mentioned above. At a first glance: we do not know if the 15A1 (i218) driver of b_w really ever worked! (if anybode here has a mb with a 218-V...) But i'll try to implement and test your idea later! Edit: i inserted 2909 (155A -> 15B8), reverted 2910 to as it was (1559), reverted 21370 (to original 1559) but did 2137C (15A1 -> 15B8). The result unfortunately remains the same: Code 10. Now @Mov AX, 0xDEAD, what means 28362 then (may i kindestly ask )? Since we let the two changes regarding id 15 59 unchanged, maybe the manipulation here is wrong or unnecessary too?

Since filesize doesn't change, i tried to calculate the the checksum change manually: 3 * (A1 - 59) + (A1 - 5A) = 11F is exactly the difference of the both checksums at 0x138 (3E C5 - 3D A6) . Very nice @j7n, it even seems i do not have to utilize PE tools... And: Sorry Master @Mov AX, 0xDEAD, i hadn't yet reached the level neccessary to understand your wise reply above...

Thanks a LOT @j7n , and welcome to the topic! So in the modded e1d5132.sys (for the i218-V) we have the four differences: 2910: 3D 59 15 -> 3D A1 15 21370: F9 59 15 -> F9 A1 15 2137C: F9 5A 15 -> F9 A1 15 28362: F9 59 15 -> F9 A1 15 What's so interesting: 15 59 was the primary identifier of the i218-V, and 15 5A primary identifier of the i218-LM in the driver offered once by intel in a ProEmbSW12 Embedded-driver-package (which was later removed as stated earlier here, point 7). These 4 identifiers were apparently changed to 15 A1 - the identifier of the i218-V (v2) according to the e1d5132.inf! Now, in fact of knowing nothing about the .sys driver, i could change the e1d5132.inf (from 15A1 / i218-V (v2) -> 15B8 / i219-V (v2) ) replace the Bytes A1 15 to B8 15 in the 4 locations of e1d5132.sys (i218 id -> i219 id) recalculate it's checksum, update it and try my luck... But prior i have to get the tools and do some preparations... (this type of hacking is rather new for me)

Many thaks for your reply, Sir @Mov AX, 0xDEAD! But did you mean: e1d5132.inf has more differences (as the .sys does not contain any "218")? e1d5132.sys is program-code, what is it's source? the e1d5132.inf ? And the checksum (stored in e1d5132.sys) is of the .inf ? How is it calculated? Sorry for the many questions, (after decades of SW-developing) I'm absolut newbie to this specific topic and it's hard to find comprehensive descriptions in the www...

Yes, thats's exactly why i think the GM108 based MX130 should run (after extension of .inf)... and btw: no risk no fun

Hello! Many of the newer motherboards come (ore came) with an Intel I219-V GbE LAN on it (alt least until they were replaced with the newest 2,5+ GbE chips). Having had achieved a nice XP installation on my "new" GA-Z170-D3H and a Win7 install beside - with the properly working "(2) i219-V" LAN device there - i started searching the web for infos related to the I219 and XP. First stumbled across this site - point 7 - where Embedded-drivers for the i217-V were listed. [The link (on upload.ee) has expired however, i've got this pack and could upload it here... but not necessary, see below] Togeher with a promising hint: "If exactly your network card is not in the driver (e1d5132.inf) explicitly, it must be added by replacing the DEV_ID of the neighboring, close in name. " Quite optimistic with that, i isolated the Pro1000 driver files and modded it for my '(2) i219-V' / 8086_15B8 (same identifier as in Win7), started the driver-installation, it kind-of-worked, but it ended up with an error: > PCI bus 0, Device 31, Function 6: Code 10 - The device can't be started. Astonishingly enough: Some users have seen exactly this error with the i219-V in Windows 10 too! (https://www.google.de/search?q=i219-V+Windows+code+10) Now, let's take a look at the situation in Windows7 where the i219-V works nicely on the same board: The i217, i218 and i219 Win7-drivers can be easily found on the web (eg. here ). I found out, that in the relevant e1d6232.inf all the devices I217-V, I218-V and the I219-V are treated absolutely identically. And they all share the same 'Registry Settings' section well. So i searched further and found another page (https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=46865&start=20), where user b_w (hello b_w, are you here too??) offers a *modded* driver - for the "Intel Ethernet Connection (2) I218-V". Examinating the e1d5132.inf there, i found it modded (for his 15A1 / (2) i218-V ) the same way as i did it for my 15B8 / (2) i219-V described above. But halt! In the driver folder of that driver.7z there is a modded e1d5132.sys too! The difference - compared to the original e1d5132$.sys - are 2 bytes, at position 0x138 and 0x139. But also with this new, modded e1d5132.sys the driver installation ends with the same error 10. So the .sys driver seems to correspond with the devices in the .inf driverfile?! At this point i had to make a break, for the first... and decided to start this topic. Please note: 1) This Intel i219-V LAN can be found on quasi every second mainboard (or even more) - getting it working in XP would imo mean e big leap for their XP-usability. 2) 1) implies, that newer Mini-ITX HW (with an i219) could be considerbale for an XP-build as in this case no extra PCI-LAN is necessary, Additional links: - The i219-V Product specificaten page i219 product brief: https://cdrdv2.intel.com/v1/dl/getcontent/333229 i219 datasheet: https://cdrdv2.intel.com/v1/dl/getcontent/612523 - The i218-V Product specificaten page Datasheet and Product-brief for the i218

Seeing XP running smoothly on latest 5nm hardware is simply awesome.... Edit: btw maybe you specialists here could have e brief view on my new tpic here...?

Congratulations @sparty411! Maybe... meanwhile XP is simply bored with old stuff like hdd's and standard ssd's? However, the Core Speed of 5,447 GHz seems somewhat exagerated for displaying these two info windows ... but please don't bother, it's the same what cpu-z is showing here on my Z170 installation - allways on Max-Multi. The more relevant info seems to be the actual Watt consumption, (eg. shown in HW-Monitor). Eventually you can post a screenshot of the power consumption too...

A small glitch arises though, with the background-color: rgb(232,232,232) tweak in the userChrome.css: if a line with a altered color in the mail-list is selected, it turns nearly unreadebale! No white script on on a strong blue background, but it's light grey on white. Strange enough: if i change to the background-color: rgb(255,255,255) - which means white, as in the standard odd lines - such a selected line is displaying white on white.... Edit: The solution is as simple as adding 2 additional lines in the .css: #threadTree treechildren::-moz-tree-row(odd, selected) { background-color: Highlight !important; }

Moved the userChrome.css in that (new) Chrome subfolder and finally it's there . Many thanks @AstroSkipper and a happy nice weekend!

Hello @flameI, prior to answering your question let me please put one at you: Are you aware that this model has an 8th gen CPU, and it's got official support by Dell for Win 10/11 only? That said, i would like to confirm that imo there should be a certain probabilty that a tweak of the 368.81 (XP) driver will allow it to handle the MX130 gpu, since it's Maxwell based as you wrote above. I recently got to work a GT710 with an older driver under XP by editing the .inf (link), however, the difference is: that model had official XP support by Nvidia, in contrary to the MX130 which hasn't.

No Sorry necessary at all @AstroSkipper as i can see (and appreciate) all your helpful input and contributions here! Well, coming from Thunderbird 2.0 (as i wrote here, pt 4.) i observerd this "alt row highlight" had gone in mailnews (at least per default), didn't find a reltated switch in the preferences, so i searched the web. Found this link where is described the solition with a userChrome.css: #threadTree treechildren::-moz-tree-row(odd) { -moz-appearance: none !important; background-color: rgb(232,232,232) !important; } which i've putten in the .\Profile folder of mailnews. Since this didn't show the desired result, i even added the preference toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets set to true - but it didn't work neither. What was your way to get "alt row highlight" in mailnews?

Only some suggestions, @sparty411: - turn everything possible to 'legacy' in biosUefi (eventually PCIe5 -> 4 possible?). - use an HDD, - try installing another os like Win7.

As Sir @Dietmar stated here, the driver works well for ALC1200/1220 in Windows XP. Hence i'm confident to get working the ALC1150 too and will state the result with a new board here in a couple of weeks...

Many Thanks @Dietmar, that's really good news!! Now, since ALC12x0 are the more recent/sophisticated codecs it should be reasonable to conclude the 1150 will be supported too... i will try and report it in my topic then... If you're living in the south of germany too, i think that time has come for me to invite you for a Schweinsbraten and some beers, after all your valuable an higly appreciated efforts !!

Ahh, Servus @Dietmar Btw. eventually, in a free minute, could you please check if the Realtek Audiodriver 2.74 (latest for XP) works with the ALC1150, ALC12x0 Codecs used on the modern boards. i've opened a topic here recently... Many thanks/Herzlichen Dank!!

I think the success will depend strongly of the SATA/AHCI (NVME??) driver you've chosen with the patch-integrator! There's a variety of one may select and try out - see Ramsey's description in section (#) Patch Integrator v3.4.0.

Lately i built an XP-system on a "rather recent" Z170/Skylake HW (thanks to the exceedingly valuable work of Mov AX and Dietmar!). The soundchip/codec was a Realtek ALC892 and the latest Realtek 2.74 driver for Windows XP worked nicely with it. Now i'm planning to build a new System with XP on a mainboard which comes with the newer ALC1150 and the question is: Will that Realtek 2.74 driver support it? I would highly appreciate any hints and answers to this question of users driving (newer, post Ivy) boards with latest Realtek ALC1150 /1200/1220 Codecs in a Windows XP setup. Many thanks in advance!

@AstroSkipper (and anyone else): Did you eventually try or manage to get the "Alternating row highlighting" (for the inbox area) working? As described here and shown here: http://blog.officefirst.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/1057948436-3.png ? Thank you!

Many thanks, Mathwiz! Having seen much going haywire with (Mozilla) browsers, i permitted me to substitute 6./7. with a complete backup of the complete .\profile folder . Well, what happend as the result to the procedure then was... what i expected/suspected: the import doesn't an "intelligent" merge (identifiing duplicate (sub(sub(...)))folders and bookmarks), but a simple addition of everything in the exported HTML. So it creates a second "software" folder, a second "hardware" folder and so on... the complete bookmark base (came from Firefox 52.9) is doubled... However, many thanks again for your suggestion!! (and btw, any other hints and suggestions to my very first post here are very welcome as well )

I observed this (new) behavior the last year too: even with Firefox 78 it wasn't possible to upload (the Elster certificate) for login. My solution was to install version 102; i suppose the newest hypermodern upload-technics of google used in Elster.de to be the culprit...