During the blue setup screen, you need to continuously press F5 and then select "ACPI Multiprocessor". This will allow the recognized ram to be in the 3GB-4GB range rather than just 2.21GB
@@SimSimsTECHcrunch I recommend X64 /AMD64 versions for XP and NT 5 and up on modern hardware. only when you play games that don't support the x64 version, fall back to x86 only !
Xp is the ultimate sweetspot where retro met modern , with all the bootskins and the inexperience patchers etc it was the last OS that you could customize to look like any operating systems before it or many operating systems after it , plus being able to play anything from chips challenge from 1989 to elder scrolls skyrim from 2011 is a nice bonus
I remember being a small kid and installing windows XP in my PC...no errors, not getting stuck, just 2-3 hours of adrenaline rush. I would have freaked out if I knew that 1000 different errors could occur during installations.
You probably didn't know about this, but the XP enthusiast community have gotten ACPI working on XP. They've also gotten generic AHCI, NVME and USB 3.0 support working too. Some drivers have issues with more than 4GB of RAM so the PAE patch now lets you limit to 4GB RAM if you run into that problem. NVIDIA GPU acceleration is still limited to maxwell and earlier though. You should do an update on this video, XP hardware support has improved quite a bit since you made this.
Can i get a link to see this information and possibly keep updated on it also if they can add all the drivers to be able to play all modern games/Applications So we can compete against modern bloated windows so we aren't forced to have spyware 24/7 on our computers and can run more then 4GB of RAM. Also What kind of DDR did they make compatible? I got two 8 GB DDR4 RAM sticks. Vulkan would be a nice touch too. But i don't know. That's allot of work and i don't know if it's even possible for someone to pull off.
I saw a post when I stumbled across the windows xp subreddit a while ago where a guy had xp running properly with a brand new 5ghz 12 or 16 core Ryzen cpu he compiled drivers for since apparently you can just do that now after the source code leaked, nvme drivers backported from windows 7, a patch to fully use the 32gb of ram, the whole 9 yards and it all worked,just amazing. Graphics cards are still limited to Maxwell at most last I heard but it makes me want to pick up an old titan and build a modern xp machine.
Great video, very useful for XP enthusiasts. Your Silicon Power ssd is recognized because it is SATA/AHCI NGFF M.2 drive (they have two notches). The other one, samsung, is not because it is strictly NVMe. There is two kind of M.2 ports : those that only support SATA & AHCI and those that do both. It is confusing because both use the exact same ports and connectors ; M key/B key/M&B Key. The only way to know is to consult the BIOS and the motherboard manual or to try both type of drives and see what works.
5:18 That message is because of how PSUs worked then. Power off wasn't software controlled in OS, but it was a electrical switch on the PSU. So the OS shutting down quit applications, finished all writes etc., but then user had to cut the power manually.
Yeah, that's part of what ACPI does, and by the time XP came out nearly all PCs that could run it had ACPI--that's why he has to bypass it in the setup program. You must be thinking of Windows 98 and before (though I'm pretty sure even 98 had ACPI support, for the few PCs that did.)
I still use it to retro game on it Specs i7 3770 12gb ram 9800gt 512mb(placeholder will be replaced by 700 or 600 series nvidia probably 650/650ti 750ti 750
They still do! At least, for the government, I don’t get why they don’t keep supporting old NT versions, can’t you patch old Windows NT versions to support newer versions of windows updates?
@@gmdking It's not about they can't, they didn't want. In fact, they intentionally dropped supports on vga drivers, and web browsers. It's not the security that matters.
I'm happy. that I installed and activated my version of Windows XP Home in Virtualbox in March 2010. I still use that installation of XP a few times per week to play the wma copies of my LPs and CDs with WoW and TrueBass effects. That VM survived 3 desktops and 4 CPUs; Pentium 4 HT (1C2T; 3.0GHz); Phenom X3 (3C3T; 2.3GHz); Phenom II X4 (4C4T; 3.2GHz) and the Ryzen 3 2200G (4C4T; 3.7GHz OC).
It only sees the 120GB SSD because it is M.2 interface, but SATA controller. The other one it is NVMe and uses PCI-Ex, which XP doesn't know about, but it detects the SATA controller.
The newest NVIDIA GPU with XP drivers is 960 I think. I have one for my multi boot machine including xp, 7, 8, and 10/11. Still think very highly of XP though the lack of security was its Achilles heel.
@@dankmemebunnyyeah, it’s funny how the artificial 960 limit can be patched out by adding a few lines to the inf hell, you can even set up a titan x sli build and it would be compatible with xp
@@gmdking yes it does, i have a personal windows xp retro build and im using a gtx 980ti 6gb gpu, you need to tweak the nvidia driver file thou so Windows xp can recognize your card. Newer games will work as long as the game your trying to play is fully Directx 9 compatible and that also has a minimun requirement that works under windows xp, so lets put it this way, your good to go to play games released between 2000 to all the way to the 2010s, later than that it might work but you need to check the requiriments asking for win xp and directx9 as a minimun, remember that this dx9 was the last library version that was supported under windows XP, hope this works😅
Hey, in BIOS there is one option to make it "legacy" so that you can use your normal USB mouse...... Asrock and Asus motherboards should support it. That way you dont need to use PS/2.
I went through a project getting Windows 7 to work on a modern laptop (new at the time), but that was a few years ago now, like 2018 I think. Once I got that laptop working with Win7 I made a disk image so I'd never have to go through that again. Getting XP to work on today's hardware is way harder because there's a lot less chance that XP drivers ever existed for most of the components, or even older versions of those components that might work with an .inf hack. I'm impressed you got so far with it. Too bad about the GTX1080 not working, it would be cool to see a solution for that if there is one. To fix the USB, you could install a USB card and then use USB devices for the network and sound (if you're out of slots). Modern ATI/AMD video cards have open source 3D drivers for linux, so I wonder if anybody will ever use that as the basis for new WinXP compatible drivers for any of those cards. Being able to multiboot a modern system with XP alongside newer OSes would be cool.
In BIOS there is an option to make it "legacy", so that your modern USB mouse should work...... its also possible to install drivers for GTX 980Ti/Titan.
If I install Win XP in a virtual machine, will it be able to install old drivers for old external hardwares that were supported in XP, detect and run those hardwares again? Thanks.
Windows XP won’t load the first SSD because it is a NVMe SSD and is presumably running in NVMe mode in the BIOS while the other one is a SATA-only M.2 SSD and runs in SATA mode allowing it to be visible to Windows XP. As Windows XP doesn’t have NVMe support but it has SATA support it detects only the SATA SSD.
I think the larger SSD is not detected because of the 32-bit number limit. If you are downloading a non-64-bit edition of Windows XP (Which is very likely, as the primary edition is 32-bit), then the drive probably did not show up because it's too large. This is why you cannot have >4 GB on a 32-bit OS, and why we jumped to 64-bit CPUs. Any CPU made after ~2007 is probably 64-bit.
that doesnt matter since 32 bit xp is limited to 4 gb ram not storage memory, the reason probably was that win xp needs a sata driver to recognize sata drives like SSDs
@@m3e642 Filesystems have number limits too -- for example, I think NTFS has a 64-bit number limit, which limits you to ~a few petabytes of storage. FAT32 is limited to 32-bit numbers, hence the 32 in the name and the 4GB file size limit. There are other filesystems like ZFS (mostly used on Linux) which have a number limit of 128-bits, but we're very unlikely to even scrape that limit any time soon.
No, all wrong. It doesn't recognize the 1TB SSD because XP doesn't know NVME. In fact, even 7 doesn't know NVME (side load NVME driver is possible to install 7 on NVME).
that's not the case, 970 Evo is nvme based drive while the other one is m.2 sata which is sata based drive, even windows 7 cannot read nvme drive without specific driver
Omg.... I haven't seen Windows XP in years! Reminds me of all the games I used to play and all the fun I used to have on the pc! So much easier to go into your own computer and fix stuff back then! Imo
I admire your determination when it's so tempting to just use a Virtual PC environment! I've never seen it load so quick! What about the frustrations of a virtual environment and using Windows XP without lagging on the graphics and play 3D games? It'd make a good video!
There are several ways to enable AHCI drivers on XP.. the easiest way I have found is to set SATA config to IDE, then install windows. Once installed, use a cheap pcie add in card, move your boot drive to the add in card. Then, boot into bios and set your onboard to AHCI…. Next, boot into windows and it will install the onboard ahci drivers. You will then be able to remove the add in card and plug your sata cable back into your mobo. VOILA. Been doin that for years.
I think Windows XP only recognizes Silicon Power's drive because, unlike the other one, it doesn't use the NVMe protocol, but the SATA one. Technically, the Silicon Power drive is a normal SATA SSD that is mounted in the PCIe slot dedicated to NVMe, it follows that the read and write performances are identical to those of a classic SSD that is connected to the motherboard via SATA cable. The NVMe protocol has been developed since 2009 and the first NVMe SSDs have been introduced since 2013, but several more years will have to pass to see them also in the consumer market (thanks Wikipedia). When Windows XP was in vogue and supported by developers, the two main interfaces available to consumers and prosumers were SATA and IDE, the latter is currently disused and no longer supported for at least 10 years. I think running Windows XP on an NVMe SSD is either impossible, or only through some particular fix and losing the advantage of the full bandwidth. If I don't say nonsense, the SATA disk works thanks to what you did with NLite. Nice video :)
He could have integrated Windows 10 drivers…. all editions of Windows are backwards compatible so no need to hunt down Windows XP drivers for modern hardware.
Fun fact: all of these games (did not check, or ever played heros3) works fine on win 10 with i9 9900k and rtx 4080. At least "no cd " versions.Only gta 3 and gta vc needs win 10 to work with only 1 cpu thread. It can be done in 5 seconds. Run msconfig, go to boot tab and somewhere there should be options to choose how many cpu cores windows uses. Reboot and play. Or simply try win 98 compability mode. If you have x-fi soundblaster soundcard, you can (using creative alchemy software) restore hardware audio support with eax tech. It gives 3d audio and reverb effects( epecially in painkiller and gta 3). No bugs no crashes😊
Oh my God. Finally I got it. Thank you very much for the tips in your video. I spent about three days trying to install this system in a way that would work and I didn't know that I had to add the drivers using this program that you showed. After the solution you showed, I managed to do it and it worked, thank you very much... now I can make the video from Windows XP review
xp is one of the best os's ever produced in my opinion and the only thing that stopped it was microsoft's need to make more money with a new os. Microsoft and the other hardware companies could have just built new drivers but they also wanted to push people to buy new products.
Holy sh1t, you are an inspiration to PC techs in the department of "Never give up, never surrender." I've been this way with obscure hardware and drivers, but never to get an old OS to run. Impressive. Hit me up, I will fund you creating moddified ISOs of Win7x64 and XPx64 that will run on (a wider variety of) modern hardware.
I've tried XP myself on a modern hardware. But Windows 98 is another story :) I had limited luck on Intel Quad processor from 2008, can't image it running on 2022 hardware. З.Ы: Привет русскоязычным ютуберам)
I find it rather perplexing that some individuals incessantly seek the latest trends, only to discard them shortly after. In my case, I continue to rely on Windows 7. I appreciate Windows 7 because subsequent operating systems restrict certain functionalities that were possible in their predecessors. The applications I use are dated, yet they suit my needs perfectly, including the games. Concerning potential security threats, I've equipped my system with a reliable antivirus. Nevertheless, I am cautious about navigating unfamiliar websites. The applications I use perform optimally on Windows 7. If there ever comes a day when I can no longer access the internet, I plan to install Linux alongside Windows 7. The crux of my perspective is that, before becoming a slave to acquiring the latest gadgets, thoughtful consideration is essential. Many people fail to leverage even 1% of their computers' potential because indulging in powerful gaming and frivolous activities doesn't truly harness the capabilities of these remarkable machines. Thank you sincerely for the video. I've chosen to articulate this in English so that it may be understood by all.
Gotta hand it to ya for that installation process. I've spent hours upon hours doing stuff like this years ago, but I don't do it anymore... my patience packed its bags and moved out. Lol.
My favourite Windows is 7 version so it would be very helpfull to see how to install it on modern PC with processors of 6th generation and later versions. Mainly there are problems with drivers but sometimes installations cannot run without board drivers. It still good and quite usefull operation system than his older versions like XP, Me, 98 etc...
Hello, I was able to run windows 7 pro on my system with Ryzen 7 3900, ASROCK a320 motherboard, GTX 1060 6GB, 16GB DDR4 and SATA SSD. (I only use SATA, no NVME) My system has everything working including onboard LAN, HD audio, Blu-Ray drive, USB 3, but my wifi card doesn’t work, so I use another USB one. I did this with a tool I found on MDL forum, and standard windows 7 pro DVD image with SP1. As far as I know, this will work with Intel too. I can maybe send you my modified image which will probably work for you or you can build it yourself.
If you don't need it on bare metal or your hardware isn't supported virtual machines make install easy and you can effortlessly revert to a clean install by rebooting into a clean snapshot.
The first thing with only detecting one SSD -- you installed AHCI drivers (which can work with the SATA M.2 SSD) but the other NVMe one you didn't integrate NVMe drivers.
XP doesn't support NVMe at all. This is the reason it cannot detect your Samsung EVO SSD. The SP SSD is M.2 but SATA just like a SATA HDD both are indeed supported by the same AHCI SATA driver you integrated into the installer iso.
this remind me a lot memory, i'm using windows XP from 2004 to 2010 with 3 different CPU (celeron, athlon x2, phenom II x2) until 1 change to windows 7.
you probably can use a SATA to NVME to get around NVME problems and for sound there are some newish sounds cards that have XP drivers. as for the GPU a GTX 960 or a GTX 700 or a AMD equivalent that has XP drivers or a fast low power GPU that has XP drivers that doesn't need a pcie 6pin or 4pin i says that for longevity, also to help with compatibility set pcie to GEN 3 or 2 and if it has it look for USB settings in the bios to see if there is usb legacy settings. i mean there's is so much stuff you need to do to get all this to work it's crazy it's mostly just drivers really and settings.
For me on 4:18 it gives another non ACPI compliant error on a 6th gen intel i3 laptop with dell. Don't know why but what I did was used a tool to add acpi mod and all those drivers which worked when I went into the first setup with list of drives, formatting, copying etc. After restarting it gave another bsod which was again the acpi compliant, I replaced the acpi file again and it boot up, then on the second setup where it shows the blank blue screen and the mouse it just went black and non acpi compliant bsod, any reason why?
I use dosbox for Windows 3.11 workgroups and virtualbox for Windows 98 se and Windows XP. For my 3 old games it not run on Windows 10 it is enough. 5 games the Sierra 3d ultra pinball works on ssd without setup. The setup crashed because 16 bit setup. If you ignore the setup and Start the pinball. Exe its works. 😂😅😮❤
I was running XP on my ancient 15 y/o computer, the problem is not just running, but... it doesn't have any tracking ability, so when you try to use Facebook, RU-vid etc etc, they will check you have an OS that they want you to have, otherwise; they will say you have to update your OS.
One of your SSDs was SATA and the other was nvme PCIx you can tell by the little notches on the end of the stick. SATA M.2 has 2 notches NVME M.2 has one.
1440p/1600p are QHD/QHD+. 2K is just a wider 1080p. Also how are you pulling off QHD when Windows XP is limited to 1920x1200? Also GTX 1080? Is a GTX 960 not good enough for you, cause GTX 960 is still quite relevant. If anything it's now extremely popular due to GTX 750s losing compatibility in AAA titles.
In 2019 I tried to install Windows XP on the machine I still use nowadays. With tons and tons of fussing around with nLite and Easy2Boot, i did get it to install. Strangely though, it functioned just fine immediately after installation but after I turned the computer off and back on again, it wouldn't recognize the mouse or keyboard even if it was plugged into the PS/2 port. I have no idea why this happened. I feel like it's because the PS/2 ports were really wired to the USB 3.0 controller board and then the BIOS put it in some sort of compatibility mode for older operating systems during XP installation, but then after I just started the OS, it didn't use the compatibility mode and therefore the peripherals didn't work. Any ideas for solutions?
Video uploaded: 2022 Title: install in 2024 Did you time travel to test this, then go back to your original time to upload?? I appreciate the amount of dedication you put into the content. Not many RU-vidrs would be willing to time travel to make a video
If you look at the fresh print on Microsoft they CLAIM they're not stopping us from using older versions of Windows so why are they making newer Operating Systems when they claim they're in a lot of debt? I'm a huge Windows geek over Linux and Windows XP was my childhood and I keep begging God if I could relive it again I literally would I'm not thrilled about Microsoft's surveillance policy going on with their newer versions of Windows. I've ultimately putting SteamOS on my computer to future proof my PC from newer versions of Windows this time I'm purposely not upgrading from Windows 10 and this will be the last Operating System I will ever use from Microsoft unless I do attempt to run a bypass to run Windows 11. I'm not thrilled about this whole digital age of gaming method and wish I could go back in time and enjoy the moment you can run Windows XP in 2023 but you MIGHT have to emulate older games because disks are completely being killed off and I'm not thrilled about that either fuck being professional just be yourself.
For x64 version of Windows you need x64 version of drivers, not 32 bit and not IA64 (Itanium). Windows xp x64 wasn't too popular, and drivers from Vista and newer are probably incompatibile, so it can be hard to find such drivers.
I had little issues with XP SP3 and XP Pro x64 SP2, but there isn't much you can do with like 16GIG RAM in the x64 version either, but a gigantic RAMDisk is a good idea.
Hello, Ramtech! I cant install Windows 11, because my parrents denied to do this and Im afraid due of my computer's screen (black empty). I have a DVD with Windows 11 Latvian edition. Can you help me with any ideas how to fix laptop black screen problems?
Go it official Microsoft page www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows11 Then download Windows 11 installation media and write image to USB flash drive. Then connect usb flash drive to your laptop, press special key during power on to access boot menu, select usb flash drive from the list and Windows 11 installation will started
You can run Windows XP Professional x64 Edition on a modern PC with a 64-bit processor, if there are drivers for it. I managed it on a notebook from 2013 with an Intel i3 processor. Windows XP Professional x64 Edition runs better on it than the previously installed Windows 7. It took a long research, but in the end I found the right drivers for the installed hardware.
try using unofficial iso called Windows-XP-Integral-Edition or tiny xp, micro xp by experience I tried it on virtualbox because I don't have a target PC
