Generally speaking, does Win XP Pro work with the BP6?
Generally speaking, does Win XP Pro work with the BP6?
I've been using Win2K Pro successfully for a couple years on my BP6 system (dual Celeron 400) and am considering upgrading to WinXP Pro. I don't do anything fancy like overclocking and such. Will XP run smoothly or are there serious issues? Forgive me if there's a FAQ about this but my brief search didn't find one.
Works fine for me
I used to get blue screens with my SB Live! until I upgraded to the latest drivers (SMP issues) but my XP Pro's been up for 21 days without even a minor problem. I installed a dual-boot with Win98 as a fallback OS in case there was a major screw up but I haven't needed it.
A suggestion would be to visit http://www.ntcompatible.com to ensure that the major apps and games you use will funtion in XP.
A suggestion would be to visit http://www.ntcompatible.com to ensure that the major apps and games you use will funtion in XP.
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ASRock 939 Dual Sata II mobo--2x 2200+--2GB RAM--ATI x800XL--2x Seagate Cheetah 15K.3s on LSI 20160 HBA--WD 400GB Caviar RE2, Maxtor 300GB, 3x Maxtor 120+ GB = 1.1TB storage--Sony Dru-820A DVDRW--Diamond Xtreme 7.1 sound--Win XP
ASRock 939 Dual Sata II mobo--2x 2200+--2GB RAM--ATI x800XL--2x Seagate Cheetah 15K.3s on LSI 20160 HBA--WD 400GB Caviar RE2, Maxtor 300GB, 3x Maxtor 120+ GB = 1.1TB storage--Sony Dru-820A DVDRW--Diamond Xtreme 7.1 sound--Win XP
I'm running (3) BP6 systems - all on XP-Pro for about 7-8 months now.
Single P-III/1100E@1.21GHz
Single P-III/1100E@1.19GHz
Single Cele2 1.1GHz@1.19Ghz
I had to do the BIOS upgrade to RU 1.25 (or later)
Needed the RU-matching Win2K/XP drivers for the HPT366 controller too.
I had to retire the HPT366 on my fastest BP6 & use a Promise ATA100 before it would run stable. Ended up putting Promise card in all three.
Still get regular blue screen crashes with "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" message and not yet sure what the offending H/W item is.
Win-XP is the most brittle Windows IMHO. It does have a few nice features to make it worth all the annoyances.
A recent minor disk corruption on one system gave BSOD no matter what boot method was used. Win-XP Chkdsk needed to be run & there was no way to boot to run it. A 2nd FAT32 hdisk had to have WinXP installed to it, and then the NTFS.SYS driver prevented from loading. Finally connecting the corrupted NTFS drive and booting from the FAT32 drive allowed CHKDSK to fix the problem in less than 2 minutes. This is way too much work to just allow CHKDSK to fix a minor disk problem. Yet this was the best support that the clowns at Microsoft could offer me.
Single P-III/1100E@1.21GHz
Single P-III/1100E@1.19GHz
Single Cele2 1.1GHz@1.19Ghz
I had to do the BIOS upgrade to RU 1.25 (or later)
Needed the RU-matching Win2K/XP drivers for the HPT366 controller too.
I had to retire the HPT366 on my fastest BP6 & use a Promise ATA100 before it would run stable. Ended up putting Promise card in all three.
Still get regular blue screen crashes with "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" message and not yet sure what the offending H/W item is.
Win-XP is the most brittle Windows IMHO. It does have a few nice features to make it worth all the annoyances.
A recent minor disk corruption on one system gave BSOD no matter what boot method was used. Win-XP Chkdsk needed to be run & there was no way to boot to run it. A 2nd FAT32 hdisk had to have WinXP installed to it, and then the NTFS.SYS driver prevented from loading. Finally connecting the corrupted NTFS drive and booting from the FAT32 drive allowed CHKDSK to fix the problem in less than 2 minutes. This is way too much work to just allow CHKDSK to fix a minor disk problem. Yet this was the best support that the clowns at Microsoft could offer me.
Last edited by RRLedford on Wed Apr 21, 2004 6:35 pm, edited 3 times in total.
I've been using WindowsXP Pro since it came out, and have had no problems with it at all (apart from it's general sluggishness and bloat, etc).
I use all the standard drivers except v21.83 Detonator drivers for my TNT2Ultra video card. I also have a SBLive! but have only ever used the driver that comes with XP. I do not use the HPT366 at all.
I use all the standard drivers except v21.83 Detonator drivers for my TNT2Ultra video card. I also have a SBLive! but have only ever used the driver that comes with XP. I do not use the HPT366 at all.
My overclocked and tortured BP6 runs XP pro well... unusually I am using the Highpoint controller.... Although it does not like some combinations of BIOS/DRIVER/BUS clock..... the current combination is stable at 75Mhz fsb but refuses to boot at 66Mhz! I used to run at 82Mhz fsb until I reflected at what a waste of electricity it was running peltiers 24/7!
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Ehr, what? APM always worked fine on my BP6 with windows, linux and anything else I tried to throw at it. What, exactly, is "unsafe" about it?jbo5112 wrote:APM (which supports the power off function) isn't safe to run with SMP (symmetric multiprocessing)
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Same with my systems. Works fine.johnli wrote:Ehr, what? APM always worked fine on my BP6 with windows, linux and anything else I tried to throw at it. What, exactly, is "unsafe" about it?jbo5112 wrote:APM (which supports the power off function) isn't safe to run with SMP (symmetric multiprocessing)
More problems with XP and ABIT BP6
Folks, I have had a terrible time getting XP pro to work well on my abit bp6, specifically the USB port and Nvidia geforce video card show up with yellow question marks, with a message to the effect that the motherboard isn't communicating all the parameters to the OS. I have the RU bios, and I believe 1.23 on the HPT66. I have seen later bioses for the HPT66, but they wouldn't flash. Does anyone have any solutions and/or suggestions? Thanks in advance, and please reply to rfdillon@hal-pc.org. Thanks so much again!