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@Dave-H that graphics driver SDIO listed was probably for your Win8 as that was the OS running when you made the snapshot. Try checking SDIO under XP. As for AHCI, if the MSI fails, pick some other device and try to force-install the driver on it. As long as this makes the driver load at boot, it should be fine. You can revert the replaced driver once you are running in AHCI.

Try to install it through the MSI file. Installing from Device Manager probably won't work as you don't have the AHCI port in IDE mode. You can always try to force it to some other available hardware though, like i.e. your touchpad, lol. Once you're booting properly, you better look for some AMD chipset drivers installer. I usually look for official drivers first and use SDIO on any left-over devices. Check the AMD site (or its archive), or look for another brand/model with the same hardware and XP drivers.

0x7E is very bad news. It may be easier to do a clean install of XP than fixing 0x7E, if possible at all. You should try booting XP a few more times in different ways though, as i've seen cases where this error don't happen every time. Try booting straight from a power off state. Try Safe Mode, etc. If it manages to boot at least once, immediately uninstall the drivers for the previous hardware, and try installing new ones. You may have to switch HAL as well. You can't restore the permissions to their exact previous state. The original owner was an XP account and Win8 knows only about its own accounts. Best you can do is set full access for "Everyone". For now you should check if any XP can run on this system. Get a copy of some boot CD with "MiniXP" - it can be HBCD, FalconFour's Ultimate Boot CD, BartPE, whatever. Put it on USB and see if it works. Or you can put another HDD and try installing XP. WinNTSetup can help there. You can use Gotcha Data Backup to migrate your data.

ACPI? You mean AHCI? OK, let's try something. Use DriverInjection again, but this time select "Instal standard IDE driver". Then proceed as before. After this switch SATA to IDE mode and try to boot XP. You can switch it back when you boot Win8. btw. Are you able to run a live "miniXP" from USB or elsewhere?

Did you touch the SATA mode in BIOS setup since posting that SDIO snapshot?

@Dave-H I just tested it under Win7 and had the same error. You know what fixed it?

@jaclaz Thanks! I don't have an immediate need for P2V2P right now, so don't bother looking for something you may not have. Just remember about me if you accidentally stumble upon it in the future :D The remake is enough for now.

You don't use floppy disks (unless you decide to install WinXP clean). You use the files inside, pfff. Guide:

It is a driver floppy disk you can use when installing Windows. The driver inject tool works with these. The SDIO one is an official AMD driver for this specific video. It may miss some extra programs and/or bloatware provided with the official bundle though. But all functions should work as AMD designed it. VBEMP is a generic driver, which provides the simple functions of the device. Try playing 3D or a full-screen video on that, lol. Hmm, thinking about it now, SDIO may have shown me the Win8 compatible drivers it has, i'm not sure. Did you get XP to boot, yet? Start SDIO in XP, download the indexes and check again. [EDIT] you may need these files too. Couldn't attach them previously due to forum limit... devcon_for_driverInjection.7z

AMD_SB700_AHCI.zip F6 floppy image and the extracted files from inside. Load Win8 and use driverInjection to add this driver to XP. P.S. SDIO has a driver for your video card, you can check it after you fix the booting issue :P

That .reg file is for Vista/7/8/10, not for XP. Same for the USB HDD method. To add AHCI driver to XP you can use the driverInjection tool from my previous post. But you first have to find out what driver to use. "standard MS SATA AHCI controller" won't cut it, we need specific controller model to find a suitable driver for XP. That's why i suggested SDIO, the .snp file (if you share it) can be loaded as "offline system" by me, jaclaz or whoever wants to help, and we will be able to check the device IDs for your system. I couldn't find X102B at the Asus support site. There is X102BA (which may be the same or a totally different beast), but they don't mention details about SATA there.

@Dave-H Here is a trick i use when switching between IDE and AHCI (or RAID) is problematic. Boot the system in whatever mode works, then connect a USB HDD and wait until its drivers are installed. Shutdown. Swap the drives - move the HDD from the USB enclosure to the SATA port, and put the internal HDD (the one with Windows) in the USB case. Power the system and enter BIOS setup, change the SATA mode. Boot from USB. Install the SATA/IDE/RAID/whatever drivers. Reboot and start from USB again just to be sure that everything is installed. Shutdown. Swap the drives back. You shouldn't need the USB case anymore. Boot normally. This usually works in Win7/8/10. Or use the attached .reg file at your own risk - don't blame me if your system stops booting at all You may need to change some of the "Start" dword values. As for WinXP... Get Snappy Driver Installer Origin , only the application without the driver packs. Run it in Win8, then close it, no need to download anything. Look for a .snp file in the logs folder and upload it here so we can check what SATA controller is used in your netbook and search for a driver. Meanwhile, you can try the IDE driver from the driverInjection program. @jaclaz Do you happen to have the tools from the first post of this reboot.pro discussion ? The P2V2P utility and its au3 remake? I'd like to add them to my collection, but all links seem to be dead... Win7_ide_ahci.reg driverInjection_041410.7z

If anyone is interested, there is lots of font history and details at this page: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2015/07/one-font-vulnerability-to-rule-them-all.html

Many x64 netbooks are made to boot only 32bit *.efi by design. Also, secure boot needs proper certificates and keys - similar to SSL. Your boot .efi file has to pair up with the CA certificate embedded in the BIOS. Anything M$ older than Win8 needs CSM, even Win7 can't boot properly on pure EFI. CSM breaks secure boot - it's either one or the other. You want XP, so secure boot is off-limits for you.

I just tested BleachBit-3.2.0 portable. It starts fine, but after a sew seconds prints an error about being unable to check for updates - same on the older version i often use. It successfully cleaned my Silverlight cache (files) and WinRAR history (registry entries). Didn't check anything else.

AFAIK *.fon are raster (bitmap) fonts - they can't be scaled easily and provide only a few sizes within the file. When you use a mix of raster and vector (*.ttf and *.ttc) fonts, Windows can scale freely only the vector ones - it (probably) just picks the closest available size for the raster fonts. Check what sizes are available for the *.fon fonts you use, then adjust your settings to them. Or try other fonts, maybe the ones you selected have too big size difference - same letter can vary in size across different fonts of the same size. HTH

I use a combination of Viewtube + WMP plugin, 3DYD Youtube Source filter and YouTube 2 Player add-on. https://i.imgur.com/I5IGXy4.png The Youtube Source filter is configured to select H.264 video stream of 720p or lower resolution (so my GPU decoding kicks in) and the best AAC audio stream. It muxes video+audio and provides it to the player/plugin. It also provides subs/CC if available. The YT2Players add-on highlights links to video pages and adds right-click menu entries to open them in external player. It can also replace embeds with static image + link, and also replace links with embeds. btw. my plugin-container.exe often crashes after i have viewed a video with the WMP plugin and closed the page (never during playback). Maybe it fails to properly unload the plugin?

Just a reminder - if you have installed any of the Teamviewer drivers (in Extras > Options > Advanced), make sure to uninstall them while you can still run it. I had a hard time trying to manually uninstall the monitor driver...

@zago27 Do you have a bluetooth radio in this laptop? If you do, disable it and try testing again. Some hardware maintenance won't be bad as well - remove the card and clean its contacts with a soft pencil eraser. Also, try swapping the two antenna cables. Maybe there are some errors which the newer OS knows how to deal with, while the older OS simply fails... Another option is to replace the card with a different model/brand. If you get error 1802 at startup, check http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_unauthorized_MiniPCI_network_card HTH

@ruthan Better give up on Teamviewer - even if you manage to make it work now, they will probably break it again soon. Also, it's becoming more and more bloated with each update. The main page of AnyDesk shows two contact lists - recent sessions and favorites. You can right-click one of your recents and add it to the favorites. They don't have to be only computers - i have my tablet and my phone there too It supports file transfers as well.

This is great, thanks! I was using http://hooktube.com in the past, but this is better. Here, a bookmarklet for it: javascript:%20(window.location.href.includes("www.youtube"))%20?%20location.href%20=%20window.location.href.replace("www.youtube.com",%20"invidio.us")%20:%20console.log('not%20a%20youtube%20page,%20dummy') @kuja killer Check the HDD activity light when FF is slow, maybe it trashes the cache folder like crazy.

@kuja killer Open the settings for the sandbox you use FF in, then add plugin-container.exe to the forced programs (in "program start"). Alternatively, you can add the firefox folder to forced folders. This way any executable from that folder should be forced to run within this sandbox. HTH

You can use a tool like PowerStrip , Custom Resolution Utility or AsTray Plus to squeeze more pixels into your native display resolution. It will be blurry though, and you may get some flickering. The better method is gonna cost you - replace the display itself for one with a higher resolution. You may need to also replace the display cable and (not likely) the CCFL inverter. If you decide on upgrading, first find the model of your current display - you can use softMCCS , Aida64, or just disassemble the lappy and look at the sticker on the back of the display. Then look up the display specs at panelook or a similar site. To change just the display you'll need one with the same Signal Type, Voltage Supply and Backlight specs. You may have to change the cable/inverter if you get a LED display, or one with a different (but similar) LVDS signal. Make sure the voltage stays the same though. Good luck! P.S. ifixit has a display replacement guide.

@Dave-H Check HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\Windows XP It contains your installed updates. To get some simplified list export the whole key, open the .reg file in Notepad++ and sort all lines. Then you can easily delete the unneeded lines, leaving only the key names for the updates. A quick replace-all could clean it further. Yes, many years ago. Thanks for the refresher. P.S. feel free to delete my previous post.

A mega-torrent with all salvaged (unmodified) updates, sorted by component in a few folders, would be very useful. Just paste the magnet here and let the seed going Another alternative would be to use the autopatcher.net framework, but i don't see any recent activity over there. Is that project still being worked on? @digzu A single ZIP archive would mean that people have to download the whole thing, even if they need just one small update from it. Better use whichever compression is best currently (7-zip LZMA, RAR5?) for smallest size.