If Jerry uses xp 32bit with its 4gb ram limit then his 16gb kit is going to waste because xp will see the graphics 2gb and deduct it from usable memory so he will likely only have 1.5gb(estimated) usable, 14.5gb down the crapper. If he uses xp 64bit then he will have a job finding a suitable ahci driver for its promise raid controller, suggest he visit win-raid. He can find chipset drivers, ide iov smbus and usb filter at amd, look under xp and for the 13.3 series chipset and raid drivers. If he can get it working then xp 64bit is a good os and far better than the fustercluck that is vista and later.
2 things --- 1st and important, turn OFF secure boot. Windows XP will not support this. 2nd, make sure your USB was formated in FAT32
1). The secure boot state is greyed out (see attached picture), it does not allow me to disable it. I can only choose different OS type "Window UEFI mode" or "Other OS". Please help. 2). Yes, the stick was formatted in the default format FAT32.
See attached from your original photo. There is a menu there to select on or off. Further disable fast boot
Google is my friend. How to disable the UEFI secure boot: Make sure the "OS Type" is "Windows UEFI" Enter "Key Management" Select "Clear Secure Boot keys" (You will have the option "Install default Secure Boot keys" to restore the default keys after you cleared the Secure Boot Keys) Clear Secure Boot Keys After you cleared the Secure Boot Keys, Secure Boot will be automatically disabled. You can set the OS Type to Other OS now.
Thanks, managed to disable to the secure boot. It did not work. Let me try also disable to the fast boot.
I am really starting to wonder if either you have a bad ISO image or USB drive/port. ^ Try this 1st -- If it fails, read below. When you get to the attached error screen, attempt to unplug the USB drive, blow out any dust in both the drive and port, then plug it back in, then hit enter (without rebooting first). --- If that still does not work, suggest you try another USB. If that still fails, try a new ISO.
All right. The disable fastboot thing did not work. I will try the procedure you suggested. Thanks a lot.
First time in my life I hear someone suspecting a PC's GPU for causing eyestrain... I believe that's why we have monitors with various settings such as brightness or contrast. I know it's annoying when someone asks you some ridiculously simple question, but have you tried messing around with those? I'm having a hard time believing the GPU is the cause for your eyestrain.
I tried a different USB and different versions of the ISO files including a 64 bit version, nothing worked. The error messages are all similar. Please help. Thanks a lot.
I am stumped. @Daz knows a thing or two more than I do concerning booting Windows and I suspect I could include @Enthousiast in that group too. Perhaps they will spot something I missed or recall something I am not recalling at the moment. -- I do not recall having that hard of a time switching to legacy boot or disabling secure boot in order to boot up Windows XP.
USB-Sticks are realy hard to make bootable for XP coz XP is not dev. for this first try to make a bootable USB-HD (UEFI) and set the bios settings as mentiond before if this boot then make a USB-Stick (UEFI)