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      Carnival Boy last edited by

      We have some software & hardware that will only run on Windows XP, and the XP PCs they are currently running on are getting very old. I'd like to replace the PCs with new ones. I've tried installing XP on a brand new HP PC and it just blue screens almost immediately after starting to run the setup program.

      I don't think virtualisation is the answer, because the software using special hardware installed in a PCI slot, so the OS needs to run on bare metal.

      Is it generally possible to install XP on new PCs, or am I on a hiding to nothing and should give up trying?

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        thanksajdotcom @Carnival Boy last edited by

        @Carnival-Boy said:

        We have some software & hardware that will only run on Windows XP, and the XP PCs they are currently running on are getting very old. I'd like to replace the PCs with new ones. I've tried installing XP on a brand new HP PC and it just blue screens almost immediately after starting to run the setup program.

        I don't think virtualisation is the answer, because the software using special hardware installed in a PCI slot, so the OS needs to run on bare metal.

        Is it generally possible to install XP on new PCs, or am I on a hiding to nothing and should give up trying?

        Have you checked to make sure UEFI is turned off and that Legacy Mode is turned on?

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        • thanksajdotcom
          thanksajdotcom last edited by

          In the BIOS that is

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          • StrongBad
            StrongBad last edited by

            UEFI being on is a good guess.

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              Carnival Boy last edited by

              Cheers. That didn't work on its own, but I changed SATA emulation mode to IDE and that did the trick.

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              • Dashrender
                Dashrender last edited by

                You could get yourself the better performance (most likely) by finding the SATA drivers for that system.

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                • JaredBusch
                  JaredBusch last edited by

                  Odd that. I've had many an XP system running on SATA drives. That is not a XP problem.

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                  • Dashrender
                    Dashrender last edited by

                    If you don't have a XP installation media with baseline SATA drivers in it (all the newer OEM ones did) then you can't install XP on a SATA without the BIOS being in ATA mode. Native XP doesn't know about SATA drivers.

                    It's a bit of a hassle to make a driver slipstreamed disk, but can be done in less than an hour usually, then you can install XP on the system fairly easily and gain the performance enhancements.

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