It seems that the BIOS reverts to its defaults values on certain situations (loss of battery power, BSOD, etc). One setting is the SATA native mode : AHCI mode instead of IDE. Because XP was installed with BIOS set to IDE, this keeps Windows from loading, resulting in a BSOD. Also, using AHCI should improve …
Tag: AHCI
Aug 15 2011
Windows XP USB Floppy problem
One day i needed to install Windows XP on a laptop with Intel SATA AHCI enabled. I failed integrating the drivers with nLite (it’s because i used a SP3 version, instead of XP SP2 – but this is another story). It appears that Windows XP doesn’t “support” my USB Floppy during it’s install. Yes, it …