Hey thanks again for the correction. I have the correct AMD 32bit driver now... Thank you for the pic. ;)

after a few hic ups it finally took the driver and installed. F6 floppy method

But is not stable...

I cannot get into Device Manager or the display properties just hangs and I have to kill the process
but I can play 3D Pinball.

I can get into task manager and see all four cores and memory.
Does not find a network adapter.
CPU Usage is showing 70% but in processes there is nothing using the processor out of the ordinary.

system properties shows:
AMD A-4-5000
Radeon HD graphics

Any other suggestions? maybe one of those links you sent will help...

This is a great start... Maybe it would run better on an Intel system?

Thanks again!
Chuck

Also...

It hangs in File Explorer intermittingly and does not show a CD drive and cannot eject the CD diver either by button or Software eject. A laptop reset fixes...

Then I can boot into safe mode and everything works.
I can get into Device Manager and display properties.

File Explorer works along with the CD drive.

CPU usage is at 0% and the system is very responsive.

And this is the Hard Drive Controller that loaded:
The sata driver that is loaded is actually a AMD AHCI Compatible RAID Conrtroller
under the SCSI and Raid Controllers section.

There is no IDE/Sata controller section,
Also the Disk Drive is showing as a SCSI Disk Device.
As this is a Raid Controller driver and not a SATA driver? From what the pic said and I actually
downloaded. ;)

Is this the only driver option?
Why does safe mode run so well?

Thanks,
Chuck

Why in regular mode is the processor usage at 70% and in safe mode its at 0?

I was not able to load any drivers in regular mode as I cannot access device manager or display properties. So why would the processor be so bogged down?

when I get into safe mode everything is yellow banged except the raid driver...
So I will attempt to find drivers for the system and video and see what happens..

Do you think this would run better on an INTEL platform?

Its a laptop I cant unplug the devices...
And the real system this will need to be installed on is a HP Moonshot Cartridge...

This install is just to see if I could get XP to load on this type of hardware config.

This laptop I am using has the same sata controller and AMD chipset as the moonshot cartridge we want
to get XP installed on... which the cartridge will have less hardware to deal with, no sound, no video and so forth...

I will try the links you suggested as well. If you find any other drivers please let me know.

Thanks again for all your help and patients!
Chuck

On those links you sent me, I have tried all 3 versions...

When the package is installing the detection driver fails and then the package will close...

Any thoughts?

Sorry for that but you have helped much so far, I have the system booted with your driver but it is limited...

And I am talking about these links below...

i found drivers for xp :
Drivers Amd Pilote AHCI/CIR/IOV/SMBus/USB SB700/SB800/SB900/FCH 13.4 WHQL
http://www.touslesdrivers.com/index.php?...23&v_code=38899

Drivers Amd Pilote RAID SB700/SB800/SB900/FCH 13.4 WHQL
http://www.touslesdrivers.com/index.php?...23&v_code=38902

click Téléchargement icon to get a windows and get file

i found that you have latext cpu with gpu inside so i ilooked at amd website :
http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/de...ofessional/Home

i also found an other site having one driver dedicated to your a4-5000
in the middle of the page : https://fr.driverscollection.com/?H=A4-5000&By=AMD&dpage=2

here is a kind of wiki about your cpu and its gpu :
http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Jaguar/AMD...%20A4-5000.html
GPU Type: Radeon HD 8330

I tried all the drivers from each one of the links above and they all gave the same result:
The driver install will lock up in regular mode and I have to kill the process
The driver will give an error message in Safe Mode "Failed to load the detection driver" and the install fails

I can get the system up and booted with your amd 32bit driver as I stated above but I cannot access Device Manager or Display Properties unless I am in safe mode.
Then I am having trouble trying to install drivers in safe mode...

A recap:

Your AHCI/Raid driver works, the system is booted. But limited in REGULAR MODE Safe Mode works fine but cant load drivers there either...
The drivers from the links above all fail with lock ups in regular mode and fail the detection driver in safe mode...

The package is the Catalyst Install Manager (from the links above)

Win7 and Win 8 install just fine with no bangs and all drivers are easy to install.
This a brand new system as well... No errors are recognized unless doing this XP install...

A true incompatibility issue or driver issue somewhere....

OK, I installed the .net framework 2.0 and now I am able to run the catalyst install manager and get all the way to the screen where is shows all the hardware about to be installed and then it hangs while doing a custom install.

I am in the process of installing the catalyst install manager via express install... I will update you

This is one step closer...

Anymore thoughts? ;)

I will try the new install with the F5 prompt in a bit... I just believe I am missing something here...

OK with .net 2.0 installed I was able to get the video driver and the sound driver loaded with the express mode setup. But still have the cpu usage at 70% in regular mode.

Still investigating...

We are going to install XP64 and see if there is any difference.

Then I will install both XP32 and XP64 on the projected server(that mimics this laptop config) which does not have video, sound or any of the other driver mess to do deal with.

I will update you on how the install went on the A4-5000 server.

Thanks again for all your help.