How to install Windows XP Pro x86 on a 64bit DuoCore2 CPU & MB

[Guest]

I've been trying to install my old Windows XP Pro on my new motherboard and
DuoCore2 CPU now for about 3 months.

It does one of three things on install.
some times I'll get a reboot while it's still booting the installer.
some times I'll get to the partition selection and it will reboot
immediately after that.
some times I will create a partition and it will ask me to format it. I will
format it, either with quick or standard and it will reboot, then if it
doesn't crash on reboot it will ask me to format again, or delete the
existing partition because it's not valid.

The hardware manufacture said that the board would not support the old 32bit
windows XP Pro because the new motherboard has SLI mode with 16x PCIe.

I believed them and purchased the XP Pro x64 bit.

The x64 XP Pro has given me nothing but troubles. Apparently after a few
hours of fiddling around with any number of 32bit applications such as
WinAmp, Trillian, Nero, Eve-Online, Yahoo, VLC, WMP, or esspecially if I load
a video on YouTube and it gets played with the x32bit Flash Player in IE7....
The whole system slows to a crawl. CPU usage maxes out on both CPU's and the
sound system which is the 32bit driver for the new X-Fi Platnium Sound
Blaster starts to chirp like a cricket that won't shut up.

That's usually when I reboot and it starts to run smooth again, but
rebooting every 3 hours is not a good way to spend the day.

Also I can't run any anti-virus, because they all run in 32bit mode which
causes the system to either run unbelievably slow, or stop completely for a
few hours! And there are no true 64bit anti-viruses out there, and none of
the companies are planning any true 64bit versions of their software.

I was thinking it must be something to do with the memory manager in the
WOW64 emulation software. Its the only thing that makes sense to me, since
most emulators are really bad at memory management.

I've tried just about everything I can think of, HijackThis, Ad-Aware,
Spybot S&D, MSConfig, reinstalling, Windows Updates, formatting and
reinstalling.....nothing works!

Some one please advise.

Kind regards
Seth
www.SethEden.com

 

[Guest]

The hardware manufacture said that the board would not support the old

32bit windows XP Pro because the new motherboard has SLI mode with 16x
PCIe

I bet their snake-oil is the best in the Wild West, too. :-/

64-bit OS's are still in their teething stage, I wouldn't use one for
production work. Same is true of Linux or Windows.

At my feet I have a nVidia M2N (16x PCIe, SLI(not used), dual-core Athlon
64, 2x SATA-300 disks. It's running Windows 2000 SP4.

No, the reason for your problem is most likely that you need to provide the
S-ATA driver on a floppy when you start the Windows installer. You do this on
the blue screen after the second reboot, when asked to 'Press F6 to provide
third-party drivers.'

On the M2N I didn't need to do this, W2000 installed without a hitch- but
on many new boards you have to. It has to be a floppy, too, which is a
little awkward on computers that don't have one. A USB floppy might or might
not work, best to use a directly-connected one.

 

[peter]

There really is no reason your XP Pro 64 bit is running so
slow..........unless you are not using 64 bit drivers for your hardware
devices....mobo/video/sound card/etc..............are you??
64 bit will run 98% of all 32 bit applications and programs.The only problem
with a 64bit OS is that there are very very few 64 bit drivers/programs out
there at this point in time.It takes a detailed search to look for 64 bit
drivers.
I am running Vista 64 bit on a machine with less computing power than yours
and it all runs very well..even the 32 bit applications.
How much RAM do you have??....I hope at least 1gb how large
a HD??
Yes the salesperson gave you a line of BS...........and if you really wish
to go back to 32bit you will need to format the 64 bit OS off the HD...tthen
install the 32 bit OS loading the SATA drivers off a floppy when the OS asks
you during the installation process.
I would check all of my drivers to see if they were 64 bit or just look for
64 bit drivers and install them they would override the 32bit
drivers..........especially the mobo drivers as they relate to your SATA
drives.

If the installation of 64 bit drivers does not solve your problem then I
would consider the installation of the 32 bit OS

i hope this was helpfull
peter

 

[peter]

SATA drivers are usually part of the MOBO driver package.......not from the
HD manufacturer.
There also usually is a setting in the BIOS which determines wether you will
boot off the Sata or IDE drive.
You did not state your mobo so I cannot go into too much detail...but the
manual should explain the settings.
As an example some Mobo require you to turn RAID on in order to use the SATA
functions even if you do not use RAID.
Last nite I got tired of not finding enough 64 bit drivers for my 64bit
Vista and formatted the Sata HD and then installed 32bit Vista ...using the
SATA drivers supplied by the mobo manufacturer.
peter