blocking xp install?

codezer0 · 2025-02-10T20:02:22+00:00

In as simply as I can put it, for a while I had this 3rd gen intel system set up as a stand-by in case of some manner of catastrophic system failure. Now that things are starting to shift, I was wanting to turn it into a Windows xp machine. However, so far it's seemed to just actively block any means of being able to go ahead and do so. Been using Easy2Boot since forever, and finding that on that particular system, I can't use it at all. Even tried to sanity check by plugging in an external optical drive and loading up a disc that way, and... nope. It's really temperamental. Most often with the USB methods, it will just flat out refuse to even start the text mode version of the install. If it gets past this, then it just refuses to boot for the second stage of it. I know on this AMD FX machine that is presently set up for it, I previously had a BSOD kill cycle because even though the board would pass Prime95 bootable and memtest86+ for 7+ days in a row without errors, the change in bclk seemed to be the trigger to have it crash on itself. Since then, was able to find a more conservative setting for the RAM and that got me past to have that setup rock stable. But so far, no such luck with the Ivy bridge system. It's weird, because I can't think of any reason it would just refuse to let me install XP. I'm pretty sure at some point I did have xp installed on the platform so it's got me scratching my head.

codezer0

Old bench, but one that is capable of running on as old as Win9x. Used to think it was an Open GL benchmark but i guess not. Surprised me how quickly it finished to get this score.

codezer0

It just made a joke out of 3dmark 03 as well.

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