Question, i remember once i used to edit ntdetect.com (or .exe) by a hex editor to get rid of the BSOD, but this process was only necessarry for USB installation. could this be a similar scenario to what am experiencing?

alright, i guess thats it for me and xp.

thanks for your help though

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@Fernando:
I got Intel(R) 8 AHCI working with Windows 2000 on new ASUS Laptop R752LD (see Page 12). I used extended Kernel from blackwingcat. It makes no difference if Intel AHCI 11.2 (modded by Fernando) or Intel AHCI 8.9 (from blackwingcat) are used. The "jumping point" was ACPI. Windows 2000 seems not to understand BIOS, and this can cause setup to hang on "setup is starting windows 2000", before showing the harddisk. From this I followed a problem with iastor. But when hitting "F5" and choosing "Standard PC", iastor works fine, shows the harddisk and installs windows 2000 without problems. Now I would need tools to check if really BIOS is the problem. Can you give advice how to go on?
Greetings from Austria, Joe

*To avoid misunderstandings:
Yes, it is Intel 8 Series chipset system running in AHCI mode (there is no IDE compat mode available in bios).
* To get more deep with extended kernel:
Blackwingcat, the japanese guru for windows 2000 has released two fantastic tools for windows 2000:
1) Extended core: hal and nt*files are replaced with xp compatible ones, so driver sys files from xp (also some from vista) will work in windows 2000. This extended core files can also break processor (up to 12 processors) and memory limits (yes, I saw 8GB ram in w2k x86!!). Extended core is the one I integrated into slipstream cd (hfslip)and used for installation on new ASUS laptop.
2) Extended kernel: this is for applications; you can run firefox, google chrome etc on windows 2000.
+English source version: fortunally, there is no guide or tutorial needed to get these integrated. Blackwingcat produced a HFSLIP DVD, which you can download from his website (use: google: blackwingcat, extended kernel DVD); only the source windows 2000 CD has to be copied into the downloaded folders, then an burnable iso file is created (similar to nlite, which is used often here). Windows 2000 original CD must be english version.
+German version Windows 2000: a little bit more tricky for now, but blackwingcat announced a german version of extended core and kernel DVD coming soon. The advantage of the DVD: there are a lot of drivers and applications integrated which were ported to w2k from XP by blackwingcat, for example PCIE card reader, wireless network dev etc.
* Problem with ACPI / Tools question: I really have no idea, why XP can recognize acpi correctly in the very first phase of txtmode setup and w2k cannot. if you press "F5" in XP installation when setup shows "press F6", it will show acpi mode as possible for installation. In w2k, it will only show "standard PC". That this may result from BIOS incompat with w2k was an idea of blackwingcat. So I think, there are two possibilities to get ACPI working in w2k exkernel installation:
a) examination of bios to see if there are incompatibilities -> mod bios -> installation
b) examination of txtmode setup (comparison of w2k and xp acpi and bios detection) -> take some components from xp and integrate in w2k txtmode setup -> installation
For a) and b) my knowlege is not sufficiant, because I never did edition or modding of bios components. Also for b), I don´t even know which files are loaded on "setup examins hardware configuration of the computer". So I thought perhaps you could help and give advice how to go on.
What I did yet: I used biosinfo.inf from XP, I modified txtsetup.sif and eliminated all really "OLD" devices which are not needed for installation. No success.
Greetings, Joe

Hello Fernando,
of course I agree with your suggestions how to place / link my posts. I am happy that some of the informations were helpful for other people. And - I did not realize this before - the F5 hit can show if modded intel drivers OR acpi problems are the reason for BSOD /Hang in the beginning of setup - a kind of "diagnostic tool".
Now I have running w2k with "standard PC" on ASUS R752LD and performance is still fast. I have LAN, WLAN, Intermediate lan/wlan drivers, Sound, Graphics (Intel 7 and nvidia graphics will not work even on XPSP3, but VESA from AnaPa can be used instead of standard VGA - Resolution: 1600x900x32 is possible in W2k with this trick). Problem is only Card Reader (installed, but yellow exclamation mark), because Card Reader AND LAN are controlled by the same hardware interface. But also XPSP3 did not like this, and when installing the driver for CARD reader, LAN disappeared from dev manager. Second problem is w2k floppy controller, it is present with yellow exclamation mark and I cannot get rid of it (but this is not really a problem, since this laptop does not have a floppy).
So I could use my "Standard PC" W2k system, but I want it to be done "really", and the beginning is w2k with ACPI on this laptop, because in standard mode I cannot have more than 1 core and 3,3GB Ram.
ACPI: Do you know which files are responsible when setup shows "setup is examing your hardware" in XP and w2k? TXTSETUP.sif , Biosinfo.inf and acpi.inf are used later, and 90% same content in XPSP3 and W2k, I think they will not have effect on this - is this true or wrong? Where can I find information about this? With google I did not find anything.
How do you consider the idea to make the bios compatible? Blackwingcat wrote to me, that I should try another BIOS and w2k could work properly in ACPI Multiprocessor mode. My BIOS version is APTIO setup utility 2.15.1236 / AMI BIOS Version 306 / VBIOS Version 2175.T15X550.007. And I saw you are experienced with bios and bios modding.
Greetings, Joe

Hey,
It is possible to install XP SP3 on Asus Z97-A?
I added the nlite driver Devid = 8c82 and I still have a blue screen 0x00000a5.
I installed from CD and USB, IDE mode, legacy mode, uefi off, when they have to show drives, screen of death.



Regards/Pozdrawiam
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