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Some research on the 10xx series cards indicates that the newer Nvidia engine running the Pascal engine uses higher RAM addresses than XP is capable of reaching (limit = 4 gig for 32 bit address bus). Not sure if that is correct. However, I have seen discussion in the past about allowing XP to address beyond 4 gig. If it is the case that the Pascal engine on 10xx cards needs memory beyond 4 gig, that seems to be an insurmountable limitation on XP 32 bit.

@66cats...Good idea, I was thinking of modding the INF file with the 1030 card to see what would happen. It would be better to compare drivers to see what has changed. I tried plugging into the mobo but the problem was in the BIOS. I had activated the iGPU setting for dual monitors and for some reason it was skipping display during POST. Shorted the pins on mobo to reset BIOS (be sure power is off and power cable unplugged). With BIOS reset the display returned. Then I got other issues, an 0xC0000005 type error (something like STOP: 0x0000008E). When I reset BIOS I left the mobo security feature active and I have an old copy of softice loaded. It loads Windows on top of itself and the security feature did not like that. So, I disabled the Safe Boot feature by deleting Safe Boot keys in BIOS and all is well. I knew that BIOS replaces them if you reset it but I saved a set anyway.. My initial problem with no display was due to a faulty system hive in registry. It was so corrupt I could not delete it yet it looked fine viewing it with an external registry viewer. I think it was chkdsk deleted it for me. Fortunately I had a decent backup from 2021 and it ran fine, right to desktop.

@ED_Sln ... Ed, thanks for reply. I did try the Enable VGA mode to no avail. Seems to me the problem is with the GT 1030 and an SVGA driver that got put into my system which is incompatible. Bit of history. At one time, I loaded the XP SP4 upgrade by Harkaz and several things started working better on my XP installation. I have a feeling there was an SVGA driver in the upgrade that worked with my GT 1030 and that driver was subsequently over-written by a later river from Msoft. I don't remember all the details. I have bigger problems at the moment. I was in BIOS tying to get the onboard graphics working and I may have turned on the iGPU feature. Somehow, I can no longer get a display during POST but it shows up later with W10, just before logon. I need to fix that first, hopefully by pulling the CMOS battery and resetting BIOS to default. I know Nvidia went in a different direction with their 10xx series of video cards but I wonder how different the driver is from the 9xx series. I had the GT 1030 working fine in SVGA mode but now it is intermittent. I was fiddling with it one day and suddenly the display turned on again and at the desktop. Have no idea what I did but it seems another driver was interfering.

Update....I was exploring the problem last night when I heard a voice in my headphones nearby. When I checked it out, the voice was something related to Ease of Access kind of thing for people who are challenged for sight, hearing, etc. The voice was indicating which key was hit on the keyboard. So, it seems XP has reached the desktop and I just don't have video. If I try to go into Safe Mode, it stop loading after AGP440.sys, a sure sign the video driver is the problem. However, when I boot W10 on the same system, there is no problem. I guess the problem is the Nvidia GT1030 card but it used to tun in SVGA mode with the same card and it suddenly turned on the other night with XP.

I've had XP running fine for years on an Asus B360M mobo with both Intel USB and VIA USB on an external card. Suddenly it won't even get to the logon screen. It shows the XP welcome screen fine then just goes blank before the logon screen. I have an Nvidia GT1030 card but I could run fine in an SVGA mode which was OK with me. I did not notice till recently that the driver is called Microsoft Basic Display Driver. Seems to me this is either a display driver issue or a User file issues. How would one go about creating new user file offline? In my XP Device Manager the sisplay driver is not listed as such and under Properties it tells me no driver is required. But if I boot with Hiren's legit PE Windows version their Device Manager list the driver correctly and lets me view it normally. Last night, while messing with it, XP suddenly ran to the desktop and worked fine. I have no idea why. If I try a Recovery Disk, it asks fr n Administrator password but it won't accept my normal password. Is there a way to reset the password offline?

@Damnation ...Is the old thread around where we can discuss XP in general? I don't want to hijack @Dietmar 's thread. Part of my problem was brain-deadness. When I tried to run W7 on my old B360, I forgot to add the hardware ID to the INF file. Duh!!! Have not verified yet but the XP issue may be related to the video driver. I had it running before on a GT 1030 in SVGA mode at high resolution and that worked fine for me. Thought it might be an HDMI/DVI issue but it did not work either on the onboard Intel video driver using a D-type connector. I don't think XP is bricked. I have been able to run it fine up to the intro screen. Replacing the BIOS got W10 running again and I don't want to try XP again in case it causes the same issue. Trying to understand why it would.

You'd need a code cave nearby where you could access it with a jmp instruction, then write your new code and return to the next instruction.

Could be. I have not touched the disk for a while and it worked last time I tried it. Also, for some reason I made a clone backup of the installation on another hard drive. It doesn't work either. Rust!!! :-)

I had XP running on a GT 1030 but only in super-VGA mode. I have a GT 730 but it has disappeared under mounds of equipment...can't find it. Now, when I try to start XP on the same Asus B360, I get a black screen for a long time and sometimes it BSODs after 5 or 10 minutes. I was too slow to get the error code but it is display related. I am trying to repeat the BSOD but all I have is a black screen. Oddly, I get the XP welcome screen but it does not reach logon. Any ideas? Also, I can no longer get W7 running on the B360 machine because I re-installed the USB driver for my new B760 and erased the A36D identifier for the older machine. I am looking for a way to re-install the old hardware ID but I can't even find INFfile for it.

There is evidence that modern cities contribute heat through an Urban Heat Island Effect. I am sure automobile engines contribute a good amount of that heat, at least on working days. The truth is that cities are contributing heat through their concrete structures and blacktopped roads. A critical mistake is thinking that infrared radiation is heat. It's actually a byproduct of heat dissipation at a surface although it can be used to warm a cooler object, where it is transferred back to heat. In considering that, we must be aware of the inverse square law whereby electromagnetic energy rapidly loses its intensity as it spreads out from a source. A 1500 watts ring on an electric stove, glowing red, can barely be felt a couple of feet away. Radiation is a very poor mechanism for cooling a surface. That's another reason the planet is warmer than it should be. Radiation simply cannot get rid of similar heating as quickly as it enters the Earth system. Shula has written a paper on that, comparing cooling by radiation and conduction.convection. Here's a reference to it.... https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/04/18/a-novel-perspective-on-the-greenhouse-effect/ Basically, the Pirani gauge is a tube with a filament in it that can be electrically heated. The tube can be evacuated as well, and with it evacuated there is obviously no air in the tube. If the filament is heated then the current is stopped, it takes a long time for the filament to cool by radiation along. If a gas like air is introduced the filament cool quickly. In fact, the filament cools 260 times faster in air than in a vacuum. The earth energy budget diagram shown on the page has that backwards. It shows radiation as the main factor cooling the surface an it is conduction.convection that cools it better. It is estimated in the article at the link that radiation accounts for only about 1% of heat dissipation at the Earth's surface.

Begging your pardon, but NOAA are climate shysters. In 2024, they announced it as the hottest year ever, and when one noted the fine print hidden out of plain view, it turned out they meant 2014 was probably the hottest year ever, based on a 48% average. The next Shyster in line, NASA GISS, had 2014 rate hottest based on 38% probability. I mean, what serious scientists would make such claims based on such ridiculous probabilities?. Meantime, UAH (University of Alabama, Huntsville), based on the satellite temperature record, had 2014 significantly down the list, well behind the hottest year of 1998, at the time, produced by a strong El Nino. Speaking of 1998, in 2013, the IPCC admitted that the 15 years between 1998 and 2012 showed no significant warming trend. They called it a hiatus. UAH showed an 18 year flat trend. The fudgers at NOAA, who showed the same flat trend, went back and re-calculated the SST (Sea Surface Temperature), to show a slight trend. Why? NOAA. GISS, and Hadcrut, the three premier surface station record keepers have all engaged in retroactively rewriting historical temperatures to make them better fit the anthropogenic warming meme. GISS were caught quietly trying to replace 1934 with 1998 as the hottest year in North America. The current leader of GISS, Gavin Schmidt, runs an uber-alarmist site, realclimate, with his buddy Michael Mann, of hockey stick fame. In the emails of the Climatgate scandal, Mann was revealed as the author of 'the Trick', a scheme aimed at hiding declining temperatures. Schmidt tried to cover up for him but anyone in the know is aware that Mann et al's proxy temperatures were showing a decline in the 1960s and Mann solved it by clipping off the proxy temps and replacing them with real warming temps. The Trick!!! In the Climatgate emails, Phil Jones, leader of Hadcrut at the time, bragged that he had used Mann's trick to good effect. These are the high and mighty alarmists crowd talking about matters they dare nor reveal in public, They justify cheating for the better good. Jones was a Coordinating Lead Author at the time making him high and mighty at IPCC reviews since he got to elect and oversea Lead Authors. He was caught in the Climategate emails bragging that he would ensure that certain skeptic's papers would not make it to the review. The partner of Jones at IPCC reviews is Kevin Trenberth of NCAR or UCAR, not sure which. In the Climategate emails, Trenberth lamented circa 2007 that the warming had stopped and it was a travesty that no one knew why. Here he is secretly admitting what the IPCC announced in 2013 yet it never reached the mainstream public, When the emails were released, Trenbrth rushed into damage control mode and came up with the cockamamey theory that the missing heat is being stored in the ocean. You can see that drivel in the link above from NOAA. We know the oceans store heat, that's what keeps the planet warmer than it should be, not a greenhouse effect. Also, the atmosphere itself keeps the planet warmer because the primary components, oxygen and nitrogen, absorb heat from the surface and cannot release it radiatively at terrestrial temperatures. So, those gases tend to store heat. The point is, if CO2 is causing greater warming as it increases why would there be a sudden flat trend? In 2016 we had another strong El Nino followed by a 6 year flat trend. Therefore the trend has been flat 24 year out of the past 26 years . So, why the general trend from 1998 - present? In 1977, a very mysterious 0.2C warming appeared. No one knew what to make of it and some scientists were in favour of erasing it as a mistake. Some began to investigate and that lead to the discovery of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, which is associated with a controls the frequency of another oscillation, ENSO. I have found evidence of at least two more unexplained sudden warmings, both of them following major El Ninos. Following the ENs, temperatures remained a few tenths of a degree C higher than expected. There are several ocean oscillations throughout the planet: the AMO (Atlantic), AO (Arctic Ocean), PDO (Pacific), ENSO (tropical Pacific) and a couple more. Each oscillation affects weather and climate in different ways. Tsonis et al studied them back a century and discovered that the planet warmed when the oscillations worked together and cooled when they were opposed. This offers a far better and more realistic explanation for warming and cooling over the past century. However, the IPCC won't accept papers on this because their mandate is only to discover evidence of anthropogenic warming, even if they have to mislead people to do it. .

I live in the Vancouver, Canada area and the summers here have always been exceedingly hot. Grass on playing fields has always turned brown, unless it was irrigated and I recall entire summers without a drop of rain. When that happens today, it is labeled climate change. I was born in the UK and recall summers that were cloudy and cool. The very year we moved to Vancouver it was summer and I got ill from the heat till I adapted. The warming stated since 1850 is about 1C. Do you really think a 1C average warming over 170 years could produce the heating you mention? On the other hand, we are currently setting records for cold in Canada. In Edmonton the other day they set an all-time record for cold, That cold air originates in the Arctic where alarmists claim the ice is melting. Do you think ice melts at -60C? Every winter there is 10 feet of ice all over the Arctic and it is caused by the Earth's orbit and the inclined N-S axis we have. No sunlight equates to -60C temperatures. I respect your right to believe what you want. My background is in science, however, and I want fact, not belief or consensus. If you have proof that a 1C warming over 170 years translates to the extreme heat you mention, and that it is caused by a trace gas, I'd love to see your scientific proof.

There are several explanations. I would like to ask first if you have kept a personal record of temperature or are you relying on memory and 'official' sources? 1)Weather can be variable over lengthy periods. In North America there is proof that the 1930s were exceedingly warm, setting heat wave records, then the 1950s and '60s were exceedingly cool. It began warming again in he 1970s. Climate is defined as the average weather over a 30 year period. Therefore, for a climate to have changed there has to be a significant change in weather over that 30 years. As far as I know, no climate anywhere in the world has met that criteria. Climate change is based on consensus, not scientific data. 2)We are still recovering from the Little Ice Age that was prevalent over a 400+ year period, ending circa 1850. It last peaked in the Dalton minimum circa 1790 and we have gradually warmed since. But that cannot really explain your experience of warming in your region. 3)Ocean oscillation like the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, and the ENSO system of El Nino and La Nina. A study by Tsonis et al that followed those oscillations over a century noted that when the oscillations are in phase, the planet warms, and when out of phase, the planet cools. Of course, that could lead to localized warming/cooling. The PDO was not discovered till about 1990 and it was discovered only because a sudden spike (0.2C) in global warming occurred in 1977 that no one could explain. Some scientists wanted to erase it from the record as a mistake and major outfits like NOAA and NASA GISS are currently doing that retroactively, erasing temperatures from the 1930s that were as hot or hotter than today. Part of the warming you are experiencing is related to the way thermometers are located these days. There are only 4 thermometers covering the state of California, all of them near the ocean. In other words, thermometers are showing a bias based on location. It's more complex and I don't have the time to get into that.Major outfit like NOAA and NASA GISS are playing games with unvalidated computer models. BTW, I have been around a similar amount of time as you and I have not experienced such variability in my region. The IPCC tries to write off the Little Ice Age as a localize weather system but they fail to explain how average temperatures can decrease 1C to 2C in Europe and not elsewhere on the planet. In the French Alps, the Mer de Glace glacier expanded so much during the LIA that it wiped out long-established farms and villages in its path. I cannot bring myself to accept that truth as a local weather anomaly.

This thread seems to have morphed from one on climate change and the corona virus to one on W95 and XP. Both covid theory and climate change theory are based on propaganda not science. Proof. The basis of climate change is the greenhouse effect, which is obviously modeled on a real greenhouse. The underlying theme is that CO2 emissions in the atmosphere work like glass in a real greenhouse, which is nonsense. The idea that CO2 works like this is an anachronism dating back to 1850 when it was believed that heat moved through the atmosphere as heat rays. That was disproved in 1913 when Neils Bohr discovered that heat is actually converted in a mass to electromagnetic energy, by electrons allegedly orbiting the nucleus of the atom. Greenhouse theory claims that short wave radiation from the Sun enters a real greenhouse through the glass and warms the interior. The warmed interior emits infrared radiation which cannot penetrate glass, therefore it is incorrectly claimed that the trapped IR warms the greenhouse. That theory is based on the anachronism from 1850, that the IR is actually heat. It is not, the heat associated with IR is dissipated at he time the IR is produced. Ergo, there is no heat to be trapped in the atmosphere by CO2. A real greenhouse warms because solar energy causes all air molecules to be warmed and air is 99% nitrogen and oxygen. CO2 is 0.04% of air and the Ideal Gas Law and the heat diffusion equation tells us that CO2 can add no more heat to a real greenhouse than about 0.06%. The other 99.94% is added by nitrogen, oxygen, and other gases. A real greenhouse warms because heated air molecules rise and they are trapped by the glass. That is, a real greenhouse warms due to a lack of convection. The greenhouse theory and the associated anthropogenic warming theory, based on the GHE, are both fundamentally in error based on real science. Same with the covid theory and everything related to it. We were hoaxed by epidemiologists using computer models that are programmed incorrectly just like climate models. To understand covid theory, you need to go back to the early 1980s, when HIV was being investigated. Prior to that, there was a gold standard for identifying a virus created by the Louis Pasteur Institute in Paris in the 1970s. This was a stringent method that required a rigorous scientific process. The suspected virus had to first be placed in a sugar solution that was graded by density. The solution was centrifuged and if viral material was present, it would settle at a definite density gradient level. If that was found, the material was processed and prepared to be viewed on an electron microscope. The viewing process was stringent as well. Since the viral material has the same density that means it has the same weight per unit volume and they particles should be similar in size. Anyone viewing claimed virus photos on the Net can see immediately that is not the case. In fact, most of the viruses depicted are not even viruses, but viral material with no virus present. When Dr. Luc Montagnier and his team were reported to have discovered HIV, the method was never discussed. Montagnier himself later admitted the team had never seen a virus on an EM and the technician confirmed that. Montagnier has only ever claimed he 'inferred' a virus, he did not claim to have isolated one physically. Ironically, a member of his team, Dr. Barre-Sinoussi, sat on the panel who wrote the gold standard for isolating a virus. At no time did she reveal that the team had abandoned that method. Montagnier's field was in the brand new field of retrovirology. So, he turned to that theory to make his inference. Just to repeat, no virus was seen on the EM and now Montagnier is setting out to infer a virus using indirect means. His new method relied on RNA, a nucleic acid, and an associated RT, reverse transcriptase, which was believed to be associated with a virus. An early pioneer in the field had warned that RT and associated RNA were also found in humans and not associated with a virus. All, viruses since HIV, have been claimed based on the same indirect method. None of the major viruses has ever been seen on an EM even though there are many claims on the Net of such an isolation. Covid is one of them. The team in Wuhan who claimed to have discovered covid did not isolate a virus. they used Montagnier's indirect method related to RNA. That's why the covid test is called an RNA-PCR test. There is not a shred of proof that the RNA used comes from a virus, therefore the tests are unreliable. Same with the vaccine, which is based on the same RNA. Fast forward a few years. Montagnier is now claiming that HIV is a harmless virus to a healthy immune system. The interviewer was stunned and had him repeat the statement. Montagnier laughed and repeated it. He added that AIDS is caused by oxidative stress related to lifestyle. The CDC data supports his claim even though you will never heat that from them. We spent decades with the belief that HIV causes AIDS and HIV was inferred indirectly by theory. That theory is still preached today. What if it is the same for covid, and it has nothing to do with the pneumonia from which so many died under the claim of a covid infection. Why, after two years of lockdowns was covid suddenly declared endemic, putting it in the same class as the ordinary flu? Unless we start asking questions and demanding answers, governments will only become braver and meddle further with our democratic rights. .

@Dietmar...I am way out of touch with XP. Is there a repository or is it verboten to bring that up here? I have a lot of the modded XP files and may even have some on my XP version that runs with the B360M. @George King has posted some but they are for @Mov AX, 0xDEAD ntoskrrnl setup which I have yet to implement. Guess the best thing is to load the ACPI.sys you sent with a SATA driver, and see where I'm at.