Installing XP

[Guest]

Trying to upgrade Me to XP on a computer with Celeron 366 and Abit BE6
motherboard. Installation is refused giving an unsupported controller (
Highpoint HPT366) as the reason.
I've downloaded 2K drivers and attempted to upload via Device Manager
but without success.
Any ideas as to how I can persuade my machine to install XP?
Pam

 

[R. McCarty]

You have to place XP (or 2000) compliant drivers on a Floppy disk.
When you run the XP installer, Press F6 when prompted for Drivers.
The process will pause and read the floppy. A selection menu will be
presented for you to pick the appropriate driver.
XP will then load the driver for your High Point controller and continue
the install process.

 

[Malke]

Trying to upgrade Me to XP on a computer with Celeron 366 and Abit BE6
motherboard. Installation is refused giving an unsupported controller
( Highpoint HPT366) as the reason.
I've downloaded 2K drivers and attempted to upload via Device
Manager
but without success.
Any ideas as to how I can persuade my machine to install XP?
Pam

You should not install XP on this machine. This machine can successfully
run Win98SE or ME, but it is not suitable for XP. If you must have XP,
then it is time to get a new machine.

Good luck,

Malke

 

[Bob Knowlden]

Another poster stated that this machine can't run XP. I believe that's not
strictly true. (It might not be a good idea to run XP on it with a Celeron
366 as the CPU, but it will work if there's enough RAM - 256 MB might be
adequate.)

There are beta XP drivers available for the HPT366:

ftp://geerynet.d2g.com/Highpoint/366_xp_beta.zip

However, what the XP compatibility checker is complaining about is that it's
finding the ME drivers for the HPT366. I did un upgrade install of XP over
Win98 gold on a similar board (Soyo 6BA+IV), and I had to do the following:

Move all the drives to the 440BX IDE controller (leave nothing on the
Highpoint controller).

Boot in DOS mode.

Manually remove the HPT366 drivers. (I believe that their filenames will all
include "366".)

I hope that I remember the detail correctly, as it's been a while.

It might ultimately be better to do a clean install of XP. You won't need
the Highpoint drivers unless you're installing XP on a drive that's attached
to the Highpoint controller.

I'm not sure that its worthwhile to install XP on your machine, but it ought
to be possible. If you search the newsgroups (Google groups), you'll find a
lot more postings about installing XP on a BE6 than you'll care to read.

Good luck.

Bob Knowlden

Address scrambled. Replace nkbob with bobkn.

 

[Malke]

Another poster stated that this machine can't run XP. I believe that's
not strictly true. (It might not be a good idea to run XP on it with a
Celeron 366 as the CPU, but it will work if there's enough RAM - 256
MB might be adequate.)

There are beta XP drivers available for the HPT366:

ftp://geerynet.d2g.com/Highpoint/366_xp_beta.zip

However, what the XP compatibility checker is complaining about is
that it's finding the ME drivers for the HPT366. I did un upgrade
install of XP over Win98 gold on a similar board (Soyo 6BA+IV), and I
had to do the following:

Move all the drives to the 440BX IDE controller (leave nothing on the
Highpoint controller).

Boot in DOS mode.

Manually remove the HPT366 drivers. (I believe that their filenames
will all include "366".)

I hope that I remember the detail correctly, as it's been a while.

It might ultimately be better to do a clean install of XP. You won't
need the Highpoint drivers unless you're installing XP on a drive
that's attached to the Highpoint controller.

I'm not sure that its worthwhile to install XP on your machine, but it
ought to be possible. If you search the newsgroups (Google groups),
you'll find a lot more postings about installing XP on a BE6 than
you'll care to read.

I didn't say "can't" run XP, but I strongly suggested that it will be a
mistake. Even with more RAM, XP is going to run like a dog on that
system. And Pam may not find the right drivers for her older hardware.
Your information about the Highpoint drivers was very interesting,
though. Thanks for that.

I do think that it is a good idea to choose an operating system that
fits the hardware. I like older machines and still have a little
Satellite running DOS, a Win95 box, and several Win98 machines. It's
just that a machine that worked well using Win9x isn't really going to
perform nicely with an operating system that requires a lot beefier
hardware. Of course there is nothing preventing Pam from installing XP
on her machine; I just think it isn't the optimal choice.

Malke

 

[Guest]

Trying to upgrade Me to XP on a computer with Celeron 366 and Abit BE6
motherboard. Installation is refused giving an unsupported controller (
Highpoint HPT366) as the reason.
I've downloaded 2K drivers and attempted to upload via Device Manager
but without success.
Any ideas as to how I can persuade my machine to install XP?
Pam

 

[Guest]

Thanks for all of the advice. Went ahead and installed XP. Is working a treat