P67 Windows XP Driver Support

I remember Winxp 64 being a little buggy to be honest. Why not just go with Win 7?
 
And yes you might have to load RAID drivers if they are not built into XP.
 
fdiaz78 said:
And yes you might have to load RAID drivers if they are not built into XP.
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'Tis true.

XP didn't even come with SATA drivers.

Edit.....You may hafta install with an IDE optical drive unless you have an install disc with slipstreamed drivers.
 
I run XP Pro 64 as a dual boot with Win 7. Like me the OP may need XP to run older apps. You can easily slipstream the Latest Intel Rapid Storage Drivers for AHCI or Raid. I've done it many times and it works perfectly.
Let me know if you need any help making a boot disc. Nlite is perfect for this.
 
I want to run P67 on Windows 3.11. Are there drivers? :rolleyes:

Let it go dude. Upgrade your programs that won't run on Windows 7. It's time. ;)
 
GreenGoose said:
I want to run P67 on Windows 3.11. Are there drivers? :rolleyes:

Let it go dude. Upgrade your programs that won't run on Windows 7. It's time. ;)
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I don't know about the OP but if youv'e got an extra $5000 for an Autocad 2009,10,11 licence I'd be happy to ditch XP.
 
MrGuvernment said:
Virtual machines :) no dual boot needed!

wont run in compatibility mode?

autocad 2011 works fine on windows 7, 2010 has some issues

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=14056444&linkID=9240617

2009 no idea.
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I'm an unofficial expert on Autocad and Windows, believe me. Virtual Machines can't run Autocad anywhere near an acceptable level for production work. Windows 7 compatibility mode won't run most later Autocad's say 2005 thru 2009, though some will claim it does. Autodesk wants all your cash.
 
You don't need SATA drivers for XP. lol.....
RAID and SSD's are a different issue, though, not sure about AHCI, at least under SP2 or 3.

The only "bug" with XP (heck I'm using it with a dual boot to w7 right now) is erratic mouse USB polling rate issues, something which started with the X58 chipset.
 
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Are you talking about RAID/AHCI drivers? Or just basic SATA drive support in IDE mode? I've clean installed windows with SATA Drivers without needing any sort of third party program, but I don't use raid or ahci....
 
Get nlite... slipstream your drivers, service packs and other updates. It makes it so much easier, especially if you need to reinstall the OS at a later date.
 
Skakruk said:
I wan't to build an XP x64 system, and I have a spare P67A-UD7-B3 laying around. Might I run into any issues with driver support?
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Well gigabyte seem to offer 64-bit XP drivers on their website so it should be ok. Bear in mind that XP x64 isn't really XP at all it's a desktop version of 2003 so when looking for drivers for perhipheral hardware if there aren't explicit XP x64 drivers the next thing to look for is drivers for server 2003 x64. Sometimes drivers intended for vista and win7 will also work.

Also, I will be using two SATA drives in RAID 0, but the array will not be the system (OS) drive. Will I still need to do F6 RAID drivers during install? (been many years since I last installed XP)
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If you want to raid any drives on the same controller as your boot drive (and you DO because the intel controller is way better than the marvell controller) then you will need to run the controller to be in raid mode. Therefore you will need to install the raid drivers during setup (either through a F6 floppy or through slipstreaming)
 
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Falkentyne said:
Are you talking about RAID/AHCI drivers? Or just basic SATA drive support in IDE mode? I've clean installed windows with SATA Drivers without needing any sort of third party program, but I don't use raid or ahci....
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I really don't know what you did but XP never had SATA drivers included.

Like cwj717 said, you had to slipstream the drivers or use a floppy.

Pretty much a moot point at this time. :)
 
Old Hippie said:
I really don't know what you did but XP never had SATA drivers included.

Like cwj717 said, you had to slipstream the drivers or use a floppy.

Pretty much a moot point at this time. :)
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That was really only an issue with early implementations of SATA on motherboards. After about the nForce4 chipset or so I believe, the SATA drives would appear to XP as regular IDE devices and you wouldn't need to F6 drivers in. Unless you were using AHCI mode, in which case you sure did need F6 drivers.

Hell, I just built 15 XP machines with Asus H61 boards, no F6 needed. :p

Edit: As for OP, http://www.gigabyte.us/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3761&dl=1#driver looks like Gigabyte has XP 64 bit drivers for that board. If you want to use AHCI, then the first link under SATA raid should be able to be slipstreamed into a disk with nLite. Otherwise you should be able to set your SATA controller to non-AHCI (IDE or Compatible) mode and be good to go.
 
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the SATA drives would appear to XP as regular IDE devices
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Exactly.

If you wanted to see any improvements of the actual SATA drive you needed the SATA/AHCI drivers.

You could run SATA drivers without the AHCI features but it would leave you with the IDE specs.

It made little difference on IDE drives and in some cases AHCI mode was actually worse but XP never came with SATA drivers.

Just Google XP + SATA drivers if ya want.
 
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