Officialy, Windows XP isn't supported by this computer. But I successfully installed XP on it.
After the installation, I encountered 2 problems with this mini PC :
The integrated graphics card The read and write speed of the mSata drive
About the first problem :
The graphic solution is powered by a Radeon HD 8250 chip. For XP there is no driver for this model. But I solved the problem by switching to the driver for the Radeon HD 8210E. XP has accepted to install and to use this driver.
About the second problem:
The read and write speed are rather slow for a msata drive. In the devices manager, the msata dive is managed by an AMD-RAID controller [scsiport]
Is it the best choice ? In AHCI mode, I can no more use CrystalDiskInfo or Hard Disk Sentinel for checking the SMART data for the mSata drive.
In the BIOS, for the SATA controller, I have four choices :
Legacy IDE Native IDE AHCI AHCI as ID 7804
What is the best choice ? Do you have advices for running XP on a mSata drive ?
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Done! Good luck with your request (hoping, that you will get support by anyone among our XP experts)!
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In the BIOS, the SATA controller must be set in mode AHCI as ID 7804.
On the mSATA drive, when I copy some files from a partition to another:
In Native IDE or AHCI mode:
In AHCI as ID 7804 mode:
The mSATA drive is a PM851 Samsung 256 GB. It's not perfect but usable without issues. XP seems to lack support for mSATA drives and can't use these drives at their full potential.
I have only one issue but it's not with the hardware drivers. It's with the software Aida64 Extrem Edition:
In a session, if I launch Aida64, XP can't shutdown or restart properly. I have to press the power button. If I play a video, Aida64 freeze XP and the video signal to the monitor is cut.
Aida64 seems to dislike the fact that I not use the good driver for the video controller ??? It's the first time in 15 years of usage that I have an issue with this software.
The solution is simple, I will not use Aida64 on this computer.
- The computer is fanless - To access to the BIOS you must press the Esc key - To boot on a removable media, you must press the F11 key - No Secure Boot on this computer, you can boot with everything as you want - No problems for playing HD videos. With all my programs running in the background, the CPU utilization stay below 10%
Where to get drivers for the mSATA disk in the X220 laptop for WinXP 32/64-bit? Is the usual SATA/AHCI driver Intel Rapid Storage Technology (g1im15ww.exe x86 & g1io15ww.exe x64) from Lenovo enough?
YES, only the mSATA connector isn't the same that the SATA connector. Otherwise, it's the same thing. Don't forget to check the boot order in the BIOS for booting from the mSATA drive!
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Tue Oct 29, 2019 10:28 pm (Last edited: Sun Nov 10, 2019 5:44 pm)
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