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17898
February 8th, 2009 18:00
F6 method for installing Windows XP on a XPS laptop with SATA AHCI controller?
Hi, a have this problem...
Recently I've purchased a XPS M1530 laptop with Vista 64-bit. I've needed the 64-bit version to support 8GB of RAM memory.
But unfortunately there are no 64-bit drivers for my Alesis MultiMix8 FireWire audio mixer (I've allready contact the technical suppory of Alesis) and I needed to install windows xp 32-bit.
During the installation I had this message : Windows did't detect eny hard drive installed bla bla bla " and so on. So I've swiched the BIOS setting from AHCI to ATA and it did helped. Now I have two systems... BUT the XP is crasching whenever I'm swiching the BIOS setting back to AHCI, and it's driving me up the wall. And I'm not shure if working on ATA configuration is healthy for the system.
I've figured I must press F6 during te XP installation to pre-install the driver for the Intel 82801 HEM/HBM SATA AHCI controller, OK but I have no Utillity CD. The solution provided on Dell site is to downloade some package for Intel, but I have no idea how to make a "floppy" CD??? what floppy, this is a laptop, there is no drive A: for diskette, I have tried with a pendrive and a CD but ther is no response from the XP installer, it says only "press when you'r ready...
Plese help me out. This audio mixer is my worktool.
Best Regards.
Michael from Poland.
da3shou3
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February 8th, 2009 19:00
Hi Michael, I believe you can get the F6 pre-install load drivers here:
http://downloadmirror.intel.com/17269/eng/f6flpy3287.zip
If it doesn't work, try this link instead:
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&ProductID=2101&DwnldID=17269&strOSs=44&OSFullName=Windows*%20XP%20Professional〈=eng
After downloading the file, unzip it and place it on a floppy disk. You can try borrow a USB external floppy drive from your friends for easiest solution. Or you could use nLite (a freely-available tool) to integrate the driver into a custom-made XP installation CD provided you have the original XP installation CD. nLite can be downloaded from here:
http://www.nliteos.com/download.html
In any case, ATA mode should work for you if you don't change it in BIOS. It just a little slower on file access on the disk which probably not really noticeable. On side note, make sure you're not installing an OEM version of XP from your old laptop to your XPS. OEM software license binds to the hardware (which means it is not legal for you to install it to another laptop). You'll need a retail version to be able to legally transfer the OS installation from one host to another.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
JH Liew
MusicMan7
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February 11th, 2009 04:00
Hey daZ show, thanx for hints,...
Enyway,...
I coudn't find eny USB external floppy drive so I tried the second option,and I've failed...
everything was going well (with nLite) till I attempted to burn the bootable DVD.
Afterwards, the DVD is a blank thing, not bootable, ..sighhhhhhhhhh,
OK, then I used the ISO image file created by nLite to make a bootable DVD with a Roxio sofware (something from my Vista StartMenu), it's also just blank and when I'm trying to boot from it, I get something like that: "no operating system found", grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr,
OK so the thing I'm doing wrong is burning, ....
will use the words of guys from Liverpool:
"help me if you can, I'm going dooooown,
and I do appreciate you come around" with an anwser.
Best regard.
M.
MysticGenius
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February 14th, 2010 12:00
Hi,
I tried those links and added then with nlite, but i still get the "no hard disk" warning
could it be something to do with bios settings?
thanks