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srfndoc

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December 2nd, 2004 02:00

Dell precision 370 support for Windows XP X64?

Any idea when dell will release chipset drivers for this computer/OS
combination. As it stands, installation fails because it cannot see the
SATA drive due to lack of a driver for the SATA controller. Dell lists
some drivers for Windows Server 2003 X64 but not the SATA drivers so there
is no way to install this OS as well.

Thanks,

Todd

srfndoc

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December 2nd, 2004 02:00

My precision 370 contains a P4 with EMT64 support, ie, support for 64bit OS's. 

http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=04&kc=6W300&l=en&oc=370tmin&s=bsd

 

msgale

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December 2nd, 2004 02:00

I don't believe the PWS 370 is X64, but IA32E, therefore for what you look, may not exist. 

msgale

2.5K Posts

December 2nd, 2004 03:00

I am aware of that, but the architecture is called by Intel IA32e not X64.  X64 is actually AMD's 64 bit processor.  See this Microsoft link http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/64bit/default.mspx about available of 64 bit processing.   Ps Intel IA64 is th Itaniun processor

srfndoc

4 Posts

December 2nd, 2004 03:00

I wasn't talking about the architecture of the cpu but the version of XP
I was trying to install. It is called 'Windows XP Professional X64 Edition'
as stated on the front page of the link you posted. Hence the 'X64'.

Now on to the issue.... any idea when dell is going to post drivers for
this OS?

Thanks

msgale

2.5K Posts

December 2nd, 2004 03:00

This is what exists "Prerelease: Windows XP Professional x64 Edition - Build 1218 - (English)" and this is what is is for

"This 64-bit version of Windows supports AMD Opteron, AMD Athlon 64, Intel Xeon with Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology (EM64T), and Intel Pentium 4 with Intel EM64T processors."

BOth of these quotes we taken today directly from Microsoft

msgale

2.5K Posts

December 2nd, 2004 03:00

I am now confused, according to the link I posted it does not exist yet.  According to MSDN, a password protected Microsoft download site, the only 64 bit version of Windows, sometimes call X64, is for the Itanium processor, the version for your processor IA64/IA32E is still in Beta testing.

srfndoc

4 Posts

December 2nd, 2004 12:00

Correct and my workstation has a P4 with Intel EM64T which is fully supported on that

build (actually they just released build 1260).  So the cpu is supported but the disk does

not have drivers for the SATA controller and thus cant see any hard drive.  Dell advertises

this machine as it will support XP x64 when it's released but I was wondering if they were

going to post some beta drivers prior to it's release.

 

Thanks

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