Dave-H

Well the process apparently completed successfully, but I'm still getting an immediate 7B stop error when I try to run XP.

Ah-ha, thank you, I should have thought of that!

Hi again @RainyShadow! I'm now trying to use DriverInjection to put the AMD AHCI driver onto the XP system. Once I got my head around it, all went well until I came to load the system registry hive on the XP system. First I couldn't access it, so I took ownership of the "system" file and gave myself full control. Now it loads OK, but then just puts up an error message "Error 1x2: Error loading structure." Any ideas? Thanks, Dave.

Sorry, still configuring other bits of Windows 8.1, then I'm going to bed! I'm not sure about using floppy disks, there is no facility for that on this machine of course! Where do I get the SDIO video driver?

Thanks! Sorry, what do you mean by "F6 floppy image and the extracted files from inside." I already have a video driver from bearwindows which is apparently a generic driver which should work. Is the SDIO one different? Cheers, Dave.

Thanks again! The file from Snappy Driver Installer is attached. The X102BA and X102B are the same thing. There is a lot of confusion around that! 2020_03_21__22_05_49__X102BNETBOOK_state.snp

Thanks @RainyShadow! I don't fancy your first method too much as it's a small netbook, not a desktop, so physically moving things around isn't straightforward! I'll certainly try it if all else fails. I can boot into Windows 8.1 in AHCI mode with no problem, and I used to do that in XP too, using the Intel Application Accelerator. Doing the research, it looks as if XP supports AHCI with no problem, as long as it has the right driver installed. Unfortunately all the information I've found about configuring that driver depend on actually being able to boot into XP in the first place, which at the moment I can't do! I can access all the XP files in 8.1 of course, and I should be able to access the XP registry in 8.1, using Registry Workshop. If I did that and changed the entries in the XP registry to match your file, is it possible that it would work? I'm not at all sure whether XP has the right drivers installed, the Application Accelerator may have been overriding things. Is there any way of checking that in the XP file system? Thanks, Dave.

Hi Jaclaz! It's an Asus X102B touchscreen netbook, designed for Windows 8. It's based on an AMD A4-1200 APU with combined Radeon HD8180 graphics. It says it's using the standard MS SATA AHCI controller in Windows 8.1 Device Manager.

Well, I now have another problem! With my old netbook, I found that Windows XP would not boot with the SATA controller in AHCI mode, I had to use IDE mode. Windows 8.1 was fine of course. I fixed that by installing the Intel Application Accelerator, which enabled it to boot in AHCI mode. I anticipated the same problem with the replacement machine, and of course I found that as expected it wouldn't boot XP in AHCI mode, but changing the mode to IDE now makes no difference, it still won't start, with stop 7B (Inaccessible Boot Device). Also, Windows 8.1 won't boot in IDE mode either, also blue screening. So, I can only get into Windows 8.1 in AHCI mode, and I can't get into Windows XP at all! The other fly in the ointment is that the replacement machine is AMD based, not Intel based, so I obviously can't use the Intel Application Accelerator. Help!

Thanks very much indeed, that makes perfect sense! So I guess if I was only using Windows 8.1 I could switch off CSM and have secure boot, but with the dual boot setup that's not possible. As long as it can be made to work that's fine by me! Cheers, Dave.

OK, I've got it working, but I still don't really understand how! Playing with the BIOS settings, I tried enabling the "Launch CSM" option, which I had to disable the "Secure Boot" option to be able to do. It immediately came good, without me having to put any other boot settings in, the disk was recognised and the system booted from it! So, why did I have to do that, why does it boot from its original disk with "Launch CSM" disabled, but won't boot with the replacement disk? Is there any problem with using it in the mode it's now in, especially as "Secure Boot" can no longer be enabled (if i enable it "Launch CSM" is automatically disabled and it no longer works.) Any insight gratefully receiver, this is yet more completely new territory for me! Thanks, Dave.

Not sure whether this should be here or not, but it is sort of XP related. I recently acquired another second hand Asus netbook, and I'm hoping to replace my existing Asus netbook with it. I want to transfer the whole previous system across simply by moving the boot disk from the old netbook to the new one, but I've run into a problem (as always!) I've installed the disk into the replacement machine, but it won't boot from it, it only goes straight into the BIOS settings. The SSD is being correctly recognised by the BIOS, but all my attempts to add it as a new boot option have failed. When I select "path for boot option" it shows the disk correctly, but none of the *.efi files I can find actually work, when I add the new boot option, nothing happens. Now, here's the complications! The previous machine was dual boot, with Windows 8.1 and Windows XP. I used Easy BCD to configure that, to give me the necessary menu to select which OS I wanted to use. The other possible complication is that both operating systems are 32 bit, and the machine is 64 bit. I know that I can run a 32 bit OS on a 64 bit machine fine, but is the BIOS expecting 64 bit *.efi files? There are none on the disk of course. I've done a lot of research on this, but haven't fond anything that directly relates to this specific problem, most of it is very confusing to me! I have an ISO backup of all the partitions on the disk, it's partitioned into three drives, Windows 8.1 on C:, Windows XP on D:, and a smaller storage drive which is F:. Presumably I need to find the boot files from Easy BCD, but where are they? The BIOS is only offering the folders on the C: drive, I can't see any others, presumably this is because it's the active drive. There is a <Boot> folder in the root, which seems to just contain folders for different languages, but there's nothing usable there. There is also a <Boot> subfolder in the <Windows> folder, and that has an <EFI> subfolder which contains "bootmgr.efi" and "bootmgfw.efi". Neither of these files work to add a boot option though. Anyone any ideas? Surely this must be possible to do with out reformatting the drive and starting again! Thanks, Dave.

Thanks guys, I will give that a try and let you know how it goes! The Intel driver I have on my previous netbook was quite restricted, no acceleration for instance, and the UI was hardly very user friendly, but I could go to full HD resolution (with an HDMI connected external monitor) so I hope this will do the same. If not, as long as the built-in screen can get out of the basic VGA mode I will be happy.

I think I know what the answer is going to be, but I've just got hold of a second hand ASUS netbook which has an AMD Radeon HD8180 graphics system. I'd like to dual boot it with Windows XP and Windows 10, as my older netbook was booted with Windows XP and Windows 8.1, but I cannot find an XP graphics driver for it. The old netbook had Intel graphics, and there was a very basic Intel driver which worked with it on XP, but I can't find an AMD equivalent. While there are obviously no official XP AMD drivers for this hardware, has anyone running XP had any success with other older drivers, by INF editing etc.? I only want it to work at a very basic level, but not with the basic Microsoft driver if I can help it! Thanks, Dave.

Just one update for Word this month, KB4484240. Installed via Microsoft Update with no problems. The clock is ticking down to end of support in October, but let's hope future updates stay XP compatible until then!

Perhaps rather surprisingly, all thumbnails are displaying fine on Opera 36!

Now I've looked more closely "Breaking News" is not showing thumbnails for me on Google Chrome 49, but everything else seems OK. They are showing fine on Firefox 52.9.1 ESR. I'm not using any special user agent strings on either browser.

Google Chrome 49 is showing the "we'll stop supporting this browser soon" banner on YouTube, but seems to still be displaying the pages OK.

July 2020. After a huge amount of research and experimentation, here as a working Windows XP driver for Elan touchpads. It was specifically produced for the touchpad of an Asus X102B(A) notebook, hardware ID ETD0108, but it may work also with later touchpad versions and on other machines. Many thanks indeed to everyone who contributed to this, but of course especially to @jaclaz, who never gave up on this even when things looked impossible! The driver can be downloaded below. The rest of the thread is from the past, and if anyone has the time and enthusiasm to wade through fifty pages, they can see how we got to the the final result! Cheers, Dave. Elan_Touchpad_Driver.zip

Mine has updated automatically, which I was impressed with, as I wasn't at all sure whether it would or not as it didn't come from the usual Mozilla add-on store!

I'm using Firefox 52.9.1 ESR. I guess if the filters only update every few days anyway, it's now going to be a while before I can check to see if I really do have the problem! Before switching to UBO, I used AdBlock+ for many years, and I'm pretty sure that used to update the lists a lot more often.

I just checked and I couldn't see that error message, but all the filters were marked as out of date. I manual update worked fine. How often are they supposed to be automatically updated?

Thanks! Yes I just checked, and although I couldn't see any network error massages, the filters were all shown as being out of date. A manual update fixed it. How often are they supposed to be checked for updates?

Apologies @Delrvich, I foolishly assumed you were using the standard "Google Chrome", not "Advanced Chrome"! And yes, as I should have said, welcome to the board!

Glad to hear that it seems that things are OK again now. Fingers crossed!