XP install to EP45-UD3L.
Disabled AHCI.
Fired up the XP installer DVD.
Did the F6 thing with a floppy containing the following files:
jraid.cat
jraid.sys
txtsetup.oem
xraid_f.inf
"You have chosen..." called it
"RAID/AHCI Driver for GIGABYTE GBB36X Controller (x32)"Finished the install, re-booted and set BIOS' AHCI = Enabled before the boot.
XP just barely starts, then a momentary blue screen and re-boot.
Had to disable AHCI to get XP to load and, of course, my front-loading SATA bay doesn't support hot swapping.
Some months ago, I started a thread about doing it retroactively - after XP installed.
http://hardware.mcse.ms/archive72-2020-10-373746.htmlThe advice there was beyond my current pay grade.
But now that I have to do a rebuild anyhow, I thought maybe there was an easy way to enable AHCI.
Am I trying to fool Mother Nature on this one? Wrong driver files? Should I just suck it up and put a SATA card in there?
