Trouble loading Windows XP Pro on a P-7805u?

Hi there,

I just bought the P7805u and after spending 2 days trying to get the game that I play (Everquest2) to run I have given up.

So with that said I would like to install Windows XP Pro 32bit on a second HD so I can still load into Vista if needed. I already have the new drive in the system (I removed the Vista drive for the moment) and started to install XP on it.

Here is where my new problem is, I get a BSOD as Windows is loading the install. I have done some searching to find the drivers I need to have for the SATA controller.

After looking on the Gateway support site I see that I need the following;

Intel Chipset Driver Version: 8.7.0.1007
and/or
Intel Matrix Storage Driver Version: 8.0.0.1039

I have since found the XP 32 bit version of the above listed drivers (or so I think), but am still getting the BSOD.

Has anyone been successful with getting XP on this type of laptop? Will I have even more problems once I have XP installed?

Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

 

Did you set your BIOS to compatible? If you want to use sata enhanced, slipstream your XP kit with the drivers you mentioned.

 

If I switch the AHCI setting to IDE will I have any issues with my Vista drive?

 

Yes. In this case you will need to slip stream the drivers in your Xp kit .

 

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Det...&OSFullName=Windows* XP Professional&lang=eng

Download that and slipstream it onto an XP disk, problem solved.

This is the BIGGEST stumbling block, but there are a few other issues, the audio needs a fix to work, the webcam mic wont work, esata port may not work (no ones tested it on a machine that was installed with AHCI on that I've seen, and presumably it should work with AHCI on and not in IDE mode) and the DVD/music note buttons wont work. Look in the "upgrade" to xp on 7811FX thread below for more info, all the procedures and drivers are the same.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=295516

 

Oh and make sure if you slipstream those drivers with nlite you pick "textmode" or it won't work.

 

Thanks guys...Just finishing up some of my online classes then I will give it a try!

 

I just slipstreamed my XP Pro today in preparation for this, but now I'm wondering if I shouldn't just wait for Windows 7 to come out. There's a thread for 7811 W7 beta users, and they're reporting that it works fine, seems much snappier than Vista, and hasn't been crashing much at all.

By the way Wornok, PM me with the problems you're seeing with EQ2. I've got it running very well on my 7811 with Vista 64 and will be glad to help you through the problems (most of which are User Access Control borking up on how the program launches, and Nvidia driver crashes).

 

I can't seem to send any PM's atm.

 

Hi guys,

Im not sure if any of you have had any success with this on the 7805u.
Ive tried this with my P-7805u using the method used for the 7811FX with the F6 driver posted here and I still get the pci.sys BSOD on both IDE and AHCI. Im sure I slipstreamed correctly because I see there is now a IASTOR.SY_ in the i386 folder on the image.

Was there something else crucial needed for this that I may have missed?

 

Did you try the copy I posted in this thread? That one works 100% no doubt about it, if it doesn't you've got a bad PC, bad optical drive or bad windows disk/slipstream, or yours has some wierd difference I can't account for.

 

Huh, I can't send you a PM either. I'll email you with what I did to get it running.

 

It does work, I followed the instructions to make the slip disk and XP loaded without a hitch. I tryed it with a floppy and got the BSOD everytime.

 

Well I managed to get XP 64-bit installed just fine using the same slipstream method (with the 64-bit drivers of course) but XP 32-bit just will not load the driver at install for the life of me. Fails on every disk Ive made so far, on BOTH my 7805u's. Ive tried the 32-bit drivers posted here and the ones on the 7811FX page. Whats up with that?

 

Thread hijack...

I installed XP Pro (32bit) on the primary hard drive. I now have a shiny new matching 320Gb drive to install in the secondary bay. Is dual booting Vista as simple as just installing, say, Ultimate 64bit on the second drive?

 

XP and Vista don't really like each other. Either way, you might end up with a corrupt bootloader most of the time.

 

Uh, not really, you'll end up with a Vista bootloader, period. If you want to run both you can install Vista on the second disk and it will overwrite the XP bootloader. If its SP1 it should add an entry for "previous version of windows" to the bootloader, if its not SP1 or if for some reason it doesnt do that you either need to manually edit the BCD or get easybcd editor and fix the bootloader to point to XP as well as Vista. Though frankly if you have 2 matching scorpios why not RAID them first and then split the raid into 2 partitions and install vista and XP on those? That's kinda the point of having 2 HDs in this machine really?

 

After a clean install of XP, how can I update the Matrix Storage Manager Configuration Utility so I can change my BIOS back?

 

I'm not sure I follow, change back to AHCI or RAID or IDE? I assume you're talking about changing the controller mode?

 

Yeah... I totally missed the step for installing the drivers while installing XP, and now I think I'm stuck.

 

If you installed in IDE mode you can just go into device manager, open the primary IDE controller, pick update driver and use the have disk method to install the "F6 floppy driver" from intel over top of it. It should change it to something like Intel 4 series AHCI sata controller or whatever, then just reboot and change to AHCI mode and it should work. I tried going back to IDE from AHCI with less than stellar results though, so that may not be possible.

 

I tried that, and I still can't boot into AHCI (I get a BSOD). Any way you could explain more clearly?

 

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/dow...288.zip&DwnldId=17413&ProductID=2101&lang=eng

Try those, all I did was go into device manager, IDE ATAPI controllers, primary ide controller something or other (I don't remember exactly what it's called) then went to the update driver thing in the driver tab, used the install from a specific location and then "let me choose which driver to install" then pick have disk and point it to the folder where you extract that F6 floppy deal above. It should give you the "this may not work with your hardware" or whatever message, tell it to do it anyways, it should change to the AHCI SATA whatever controller thing, then restart the machine and change the setting in the bios to AHCI before you start windows again.

 

Something ain't right. When I try, I still get a BSOD when I try to switch to ACHI @ boot.

 

Yours worked when you did that?

Ive successfully slimpstread drivers many times but never gotten that IDE to AHCI switch to work correctly without reinstalling.

 

Yep, actually done it twice, once to the G-way and once to my desktop. It doesn't work to go BACK to IDE mode, but I had no problems getting it to work to go to AHCI mode in both cases.

 

I followed these guides exactly, and it works perfect:

http://apcmag.com/how_to_dual_boot_vista_and_xp_with_vista_installed_first__the_stepbystep_guide.htm

slipstream xp disk:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=295516

Now I'm just working on the drivers.