On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 12:40 AM, Peder Hedlund <peder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Quoting Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx>: > >> With older hardware going up in smoke I have new machines and >> unfortunately you cannot load Win XP on these new machines easily. The >> machines do not have floppy drives to load drivers during boot, don't >> understand USB well enough to use something else as far as I can tell, >> and the XP install disk cannot see the SATA hard drives via new >> chipsets so it's all sort of a mess trying to stick with XP. > > So far, all new PC's I've encountered still have drivers for XP if you > go to their website. > The trick to recognizing SATA is to set it to "Compatible" instead of > "Native" in BIOS. Once you've installed the proper driver you can set > it back to Native. Nahh...didn't work on these Intel motherboards. I tried all three modes available in BIOS. None of them worked. I went so far as to find a program that allows you to build custom windows install CDs and tried to get that going but ran out of patience. (In short supply these days with my blood pressure at 165/110 and the doctors shoveling pills in me like they were candy...but hey - at least I'm making some money in the futures market and can dream about playing my guitar some day in the future.) Thanks, Mark _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
