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Brett Caton
I bought windows xp service pack 2, because MS told me that they
wouldn't support windows ME anymore. Once I installed it, I had huge
crashes to power off whenever I tried to use my DVD drive or cd drive in
windows. It worked fine in Ubuntu linux.
I updated firmwares for everything I could, downloaded every latest
windows driver, tested copying from one hard drive to the other (fine),
tested I could actually install games by copying the whole cd to a fat
partition when i was in linux, and then reboot into windows...
Unfortunately copy protection was causing problems with some games when
i try that. I really wanted to have a working windows system so i
gritted my teeth and contacted Microsoft Technical Support. I was told
to do pretty much what I had already done. I even wiped windows and
redid the whole install. Nada. Finally they said I must be using
incompatible hardware, and that the DVD and CD drive should have a
proprietary driver, and closed the case.
"1. How to determine if a part is compatible in the future
To do this, when you purchase any new hardware it should come
with a logo stating that it is compatible with Windows XP"
I have contacted various CD and DVD manufacturers and they all say they
don't use proprietary drivers, they use the windows ones.
The ASUS DRW-1608P2S has a picture of the xp logo, with "designed for
Microsoft Windows XP". It doesn't mention being compatible. Is this the
same thing? There used to be a Hardware Compatibility List on the
Microsoft site but MS has removed it.
I have never seen a motherboard with such a logo, or a hard drive. I
suspect this is all a motherboard (ECS K7VZA) issue; that the windows
driver for IDE and the one from Elitegroup driver for XP might both be
buggy. Is this reasonable or is there something I am missing? I don't
understand why linux is working fine and windows xp seems so unstable.
I am thinking about buying a new mainboard, but that means essentially
buying a new pc now, and that means I've wasted my money buying XP in
the first place. It certainly makes it a lot harder to buy parts and
assemble your own machine if you are using windows. Maybe that is
deliberate? I read a lot of rumours that Microsoft hates people building
boxes because of DRM. I really don't want to buy an expensive Dell PC or
similar but I don't know how else to guarantee it will run windows!
Thanks for reading this, and I hope to read your comments.
Brett Caton.
wouldn't support windows ME anymore. Once I installed it, I had huge
crashes to power off whenever I tried to use my DVD drive or cd drive in
windows. It worked fine in Ubuntu linux.
I updated firmwares for everything I could, downloaded every latest
windows driver, tested copying from one hard drive to the other (fine),
tested I could actually install games by copying the whole cd to a fat
partition when i was in linux, and then reboot into windows...
Unfortunately copy protection was causing problems with some games when
i try that. I really wanted to have a working windows system so i
gritted my teeth and contacted Microsoft Technical Support. I was told
to do pretty much what I had already done. I even wiped windows and
redid the whole install. Nada. Finally they said I must be using
incompatible hardware, and that the DVD and CD drive should have a
proprietary driver, and closed the case.
"1. How to determine if a part is compatible in the future
To do this, when you purchase any new hardware it should come
with a logo stating that it is compatible with Windows XP"
I have contacted various CD and DVD manufacturers and they all say they
don't use proprietary drivers, they use the windows ones.
The ASUS DRW-1608P2S has a picture of the xp logo, with "designed for
Microsoft Windows XP". It doesn't mention being compatible. Is this the
same thing? There used to be a Hardware Compatibility List on the
Microsoft site but MS has removed it.
I have never seen a motherboard with such a logo, or a hard drive. I
suspect this is all a motherboard (ECS K7VZA) issue; that the windows
driver for IDE and the one from Elitegroup driver for XP might both be
buggy. Is this reasonable or is there something I am missing? I don't
understand why linux is working fine and windows xp seems so unstable.
I am thinking about buying a new mainboard, but that means essentially
buying a new pc now, and that means I've wasted my money buying XP in
the first place. It certainly makes it a lot harder to buy parts and
assemble your own machine if you are using windows. Maybe that is
deliberate? I read a lot of rumours that Microsoft hates people building
boxes because of DRM. I really don't want to buy an expensive Dell PC or
similar but I don't know how else to guarantee it will run windows!
Thanks for reading this, and I hope to read your comments.
Brett Caton.