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    Titan A15

    Discussion in 'Other Manufacturers' started by INCSlayer, May 18, 2008.

  1. INCSlayer

    INCSlayer Notebook Consultant

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    im looking to help a friend buy a zepto and since he wants to keep the price down the Titan A15 seems like a good choice but he wants windows XP on it and im not sure if the SiS® M672 + 968 motherboard/chipest has XP support without slipstreaming drivers onto the disk so if anyone that knows about this could tell me i would be very happy
     
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  2. John Ratsey

    John Ratsey Moderately inquisitive Super Moderator

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    I would use nLite to slipstream in all the hardware drivers for the A15 and SP3 for XP. SP3 as part of the initial install means that the computer automatically has the worst security holes patched before it every gets connected to the internet.

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  3. INCSlayer

    INCSlayer Notebook Consultant

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    dammit i need to learn to be more specifik i know howto slipstream using nlite even though i have never gotten it to work what i was interested in is if the SiS M672 + 968 mobo was well old enough to be supported by XP without any extra work
     
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  4. John Ratsey

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    OK. The most critical thing to get working is the SATA. SATA is a fairly new invention. How old is the XP? This from early 2004 indicates that XP, at that time, didn't include SATA. When did SP2 come out? Maybe 2004 (my copy is dated August 04). The recent XPs that I have bought are SP2a which, I believe, has some intermediate updates (and SATA support).

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  5. Rene S - Zepto

    Rene S - Zepto Company Representative

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    The SiS M672MX is the most recent SiS chipset for the Pentium M series of CPU's.
    There are drivers available from SiS for this chipset for Windows XP, but i don't know how it looks about driver support from us yet, as I have not received the needed drivers from our Product & Quality controller.
     
    Rene S - Zepto, May 18, 2008
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