Install Windows XP on Haswell with Easy2Boot and Snappy Driver Installer 

I'm proud someone has done Windows XP on Haswell. Now we need the Ultimate Windows XP machine with i7-4790K and GTX 980 Ti (maybe even a Titan X). ;)

People probably mixing up "not supported" with "won't work." "Not supported" means that if you encounter any issues then they won't help you with support for it or try and get it working for you.

You don't have to explain the upload schedule every time. We're happy to get a video whenever you're ready.

Snappy is lifesaver for missing drivers. Have been using 2 years now for retro projects from xp to win 7.

Haswell can support my 2 favorite OPS xp and 7 so its got me covered

Thanks for sharing and educating us retro gamers. The snappy driver utility is fantastic

the i7-4790 is an incredibly solid CPU, i have one since 2015 and my computer works smooth

I'm finding your channel, and Randomgaminginhd, are quickly becoming my fav PC/tech RU-vid pages. Thanks!

Haswell is great - and with AVX2 and FMA3 support it's right up there with the latest i9-9900K in terms of instruction set support. Another neat thing about Haswell is that the L1 cache is twice as fast per clock as Sandy/Ivy Bridge (Intel had to do that, in order to keep the SIMD units properly fed when running AVX2 optimized code). However, the stupid-fast L1 also makes Haswell great for pushing really high frame rates in older XP-era games, where single-threaded CPU performance is the primary bottleneck. 500 fps in Far Cry, anyone?

I prefer Snappy Driver Installer Origin, but they're both super useful lifesavers for old drivers :D

Haswell is definitely underrated in terms of used intel chips. I still have my i5 4460 on both of my gaming rigs and performs very well to this day even compared to a Ryzen 3 CPU. :)

SDI is surely a life saver, I have it sitting in a shared folder on my network so whenever I need some drivers to be picked up (usually from unsupported scenearios like these) I use a cheap generic wireless receiver to access it without carrying usb sticks here and there

I used to have XP installed on a Sandy Bridge i3 machine with a pair of cheap Sata SSDs in RAID. I had never experienced Windows XP move so quickly lol. The best XP PC I had had before that point had a Pentium D and a 250GB HDD.

I don't remember underground looking that good.

If you're already versed with slipstreaming for a Windows XP iso file, you should consider integrating Dibya's alternative ram patch, which allows the kernel to actually support PAE as intended and elevates Windows xp 32bit to support up to 128gb of installed memory. At that point, the only thing XP can't install to, based on inference, is nvme ssd's. It's my understanding that evga even made custom Windows xp drivers for their x299 Dark motherboard. Couple that with nvidia's latest driver supporting the Titan Z in the OS, it is then possible to make a ludicrously expensive, overkill machine to run Windows XP on. 😀👌

Great video! I now have an idea now for a hybrid / multi use pc once I upgrade from Haswell.

Perfect! Thanks! My GF want's to play old Sims games and such but it doesn't work good on Windows 10. She has haswell and a GTX 960. This should work on her computer. :)

These two tools are awesome! A fresh install on many of my retro machines with the SDI tool makes it a breeze! The odd time I need to find a better video card driver.

i find myself making popcorn every time I see phil's videos

That was great Phil and I took munt 32 and installed on a sd card and install Wing Commander 2 from GOG and it work great in a way I kind of learned of from you and saying thanks again and it was fun to learn it from you.

Out standing job

i managed to install xp the old fashion way just by setting the ahci to ide mode. just remember that after the install reboots your system you have to select the hard drive instead of the optical drive or your setup process will get you in a loop; when installing windows xp it does not automatically create the Windows Boot Manager option in the boot options and sets it as the first boot device. mobo is an asrock h81m-dg4, sk 1150, haswell thanks for the video, i will try snappy driver installer for the audio driver and usb, i don't need ethernet as i don't recommend connecting an xp machine to the internet these days

Been looking to max-upgrade my XP box ... I think this is it. Thanks!

Great set of tools, Phil. Thanks for the video!

NFSU looks silky smooth. Beautiful. My favorite racing game of all time. I Still need to try NFSU2 though lol.

My XP setup (in IDE mode) - CPU: E3-1220 v3 (4C/4T, No iGPU, Full 8MB of L3 cache) - GPU: GTX 750 1GB - RAM: Crucial DDR3 1600 (2x2gb) (XMP=8-8-8-24-128-CR1) - MBD: ASUS B85 Trooper - SSD: Intel X25-E 64GB SLC (with 10.2GB unallocated space) - HDD: WD Gold 2TB (512n)

hint: Windows XP driver support every hardware released before the year 2014 :3 in 2013 there was allrdy some quiet powerful hardware, so xp is still very good today if you build a high end setup.

Anything like snappy driver installer for win95/98?

If anyone is interested, the ASUS B85M-G also has Windows XP drivers.

Thanks Phil, It's a great video! I made a retro conf. in weekend (booth XP and Windows 7), but i can't find the sound driver for Windows 7 (Some magic with XP driver and it's worked... after 5 hours... and drivermax... and iobit driver booster... and many couple of tea...). After you video, I download Snappy and I don't belive my eyes! He detected the right drivers! So Snappy is my new favorite tools. ;) Oh, and E2B is a cool tool, but I think YUMI is the best.

There is an issue with winxp and display port 1.2 when connected to a monitor that supports displayport 1.4 and having 100hz or higher, the issue is fixed in win7 and win10 drivers but the issue continues in win xp. There is a firmware fix for this supplied by nvidia aswell but only for 9 series and mb bios must be in uefi mode (which means no winxp support)

I had WinXP installed on an HP z800 dual xeon 12-core, 24-thread workstation with 48gb ram. HP provides drivers.

Awesome. Definitely going to give it s try on my thinkpad w540!

Intel's HD Graphics 4000 series isn't bad at all whatsoever. I have the 'HDG4600' powered by an i7-4700MQ on my laptop and I can play all of my older games at high-maximum quality from 2006 and back. 2007-2009 and a few modern titles do need some tweaking (shadows, quality, etc) but most of the time I just drop the resolution enough (to an extent; 1280x768 or so) and keep everything on max when possible. It all of course depends on the game. Crysis runs surprisingly well at 1280x768 with everything at high or very high except for shadows and shaders; I keep those at medium. Fully playable and enjoyable. Really awesome and it suits my general everyday use.

No dissing on the Miata, Samantha!

Also, Snappy Driver Installer _ORIGIN_ is a better choice for the driver part

SDI work on windows 2000 as well after installing all the latest updates of course

Yes! Snappy drivers!

If you get interested someday, VMWare hypervisor has a very decent virtual video adapter which can accelerate using your GPU (that's not a passthrough). If you buff the ram to 6-8 gigs and launch the same XP workplace in VM (drivers for emulated hardware come on mountable iso for everything since w95) that could be an interesting Thursday bonus video. If somebody does not have a room for dedicated retro-gaming rig, that could help. Why this exact software? Because Virtualbox emulates Geforce2-tier GPU and fresh Hyper-V is buggy on anything pre-Skylake, while VMWare Player is free and has a decent GPU emulation.

@PhilsComputerLab Easy2Boot now has snappy driver installer also!

😍 yay Haswell FTW 😍

Nice and very interesting video, I always thought that in order to install XP on Haswell boards you should put drives in IDE/Legacy mode but your method is excellent :) Btw do you think this could work on Skylake and newer ? (or even AMD Ryzen) ? :)

I'm still rocking my Haswell i7

I knew about snappy driver installer before this video. I used it in one of my lab tasks which was to hunt for drivers last week.

Might well come in useful sometime for my 32GB i7-4790K / Gigabyte Z97X-UD3H-BK (v1.0) / 2x4GB GTX 960 SLI based build. Fingers crossed it works on a more recent motherboard than H81 though.

Fastest PC I had XP on was my Q9400 one with GT 250 1gb card.

My best bit of trickery lately was getting Dos 6.22 + Windows 3.11 installed onto and booting from my old 2GB Sandisk USB flash drive. Boots and runs on a 875k lynnfield, an Athlon II 645, an Athlon 4200+ and a core 2 duo laptop.

This Video has been helpfull in getting a old Lenovo 3000 jr in getting up and running.

Ohh snappy seems much faster than what I been using for a lot of years, apparently both use the same driverpacks! Nice! So how fast is that system in XP 😱

You've mentioned in the past that XP seems to prefer a strong dual core as opposed to quads or duals with HT. Would something like a Pentium G3258 work just as well for this application, or do you think the i7 gives noticeably better performance?

I'm still waiting for the XP hand me downs, when it arrives.

I've heard in a Extreme Overclocker Video that they still use WinXP even on Threadripper, to bench it.

I use Driver Booster by Iobit, works fine, actually better than Windows auto update.

AHCI is fully compatible with Win XP? Because some games with securom got error about virtual dvd and can't run . On IDE Enhanced is everything ok with this games. I have Asus P5Q Pro with P45 chipset.

Does this also work for SKylake and or Kabylake????

Can you install from the cd also?

Hey Phil, will this work on h97 boards or only on h81?

I run Debian Linux on my Haswell CPU. It is totally supported. My RAM is slower with XMP. Have you benchmarked yours?

Great programmes use them all the time for my builds.

Sometimes use windows xp on my main rig which consists of xeon e5 1650 (which is xeon of i7 3930k), asus p9x79 deluxe, 4x4gb ram, gtx 780 ti oc, 80gb old hdd.

I am trying to follow the instructions for Easy2Boot, it’s able to load the ISO into memory but it hangs once complete without getting to the “SPACEBAR=Pause, ENTER=Start now” part.

I'm curious if you use a game controller for those racing games, or if you just use the keyboard? I always hated racing games until I bought an Xbox360 controller for my PC, now I feel like I really missed out on some really cool games back in the day!

Hey phil love your vids man your always pushing the boundaries on whats possible for retro pc, is there anyway to donate to you for projects as things are getting pricier these days

Can you install Windows XP, or Windows 7 at least on a Coffee Lake motherboard with an Intel i7?

Would you be able to compare windows xp vs windows vista performance on haswell system? Vista would give directX 10 support and would basically make it the optimal crysis system before windows 7 that caused several bugs in crysis.

I used to love playing need for speed underground

Amazing. Maybe if Windows 7 ever becomes retro you can figure out how to get Ryzen working on it because I sure haven't been able to so far.

Thank you for all your content. I'm especially enjoying your Win XP videos. I'm wondering if your easy2boot and snappydriver install process will work for laptops as well? Do you happen to have any videos of Win XP retro gaming on a laptop?

I have old p1 Pentium system how install windows xp or windows me old all BIOS update IDE supposed only how USB how to install on system!!!

Hey I used this on modern hardware but why does any tab I move it flickers

I have gt 760 it gets nosy when play high end games

This video is linked on the Easy2Boot website now. I thought the video title "Install Windows XP on Haswell with E2B" sounded familiar

Interesante tal vez le de uso a un celeron g1840 que tengo guardado. Gracias Phil

another nice video love this channel

Gtx 750 ti still rock

INSTALLATION DONE WITH EASY 2 BOOT BUT WINDOWS NOT BOOT ONLY 1ST SCREEN COME THAN SYSTEM RESTART IN ASUS H81M-CS & ASROCK H81M-HDS & INTEL XEON E3 1246-V3 PROCESSOR USING PLEASE TELL ME ANY TIPS PLEASE HELP ME THANK IN ADVANCE

Is there a version of this for Win 98, I thought there was, but I can't find it. :)

Good tip with that snappy driver utility. I was usiing driverpack solution but now it's full of adware and it tries to install other software besides the drivers, software you usually don't want

Interesting... though I have a few questions: •What is the point of easy2boot? Can't you just do the same by copying the contents of the ISO file into a USB drive, and tweak the BIOS so the USB device isn't the first thing that it recognizes? •For Snappy Driver, is it compatible with Windows below XP (at least 95, 98, 98SE, and ME)?

Hello there, would like to ask if it is ok to install SSD ?? much appreciated

Hi Phil, Have you experienced any issues with the Haswell (1150 platform) regarding Win XP and games ? I have a HTPC where I use a Broadwell i5-5675C (also socket 1150) which has the superb onboard Iris Pro 6200 iGPU. I am tempted to try this as an XP Gaming rig. Should be able to handle all XP games at max settings if I can get it to work (besides Crysis) :)

Sure would be cool if the tool could torrent just the specific drivers you need and download them for you during the install. I wonder if that's possible.

I have the exact same motherboard! what are the chances?

does it support 144hz monitors?

Outstanding video! Have you ever tried this method with a Z97 motherboard?

Did you leave all cores running, or killed it down to 1/2 like you udually do....?

I accidentally shut off my machine before I installed the drivers. Do I have to start over now?

Is it possible to use a more up-to-date cpu with Windows XP?

can we add usb 3.0 before installation on a AIO with i5 6th gen with only usb 3.0 controller? The fact is keyboard/mouse is not recognized in this case and impossible to configure XP when installer is launched

Hmmm I can't get most of the drivers to install on my new Windows XP install with Snappy Drivers, it's on an HP Z230 SFF with an i7-4790 pretty much the same system as an HP G1 800 so it should work.. I get the following message.. I managed to install an old chipset driver manually but I'm struggling with the rest. "The procedure entry point RegDeleteTreeA could not be located in the dynamic link library ADVAPI32.dll "

i get a bluescreen saying the bios is not fully acpi compliant on the second step

Support for Windows XP has been discontinued and I don't know if it is still possible to activate Windows XP Pro now.

Is there a similar application but for searching drivers for Windows ME and earlier?

I just burned the Windows XP ISO onto a CD since i have a lot of IDE and SATA Drives

Hi Windows XP 32bit support socket 2011 x79 chipset and Xeon E5 2630v2 ?? Thanks 😊

... I'm sorry, what? What gave you the absolute genius idea to do this? You just gave me a new project idea. Ha that almost hundred thousand point 2001SE score...

Does anyone here know how to update a motherboards bios , with windows? Since i need to upade my motherboards bios but i dont have a floppy disk and all usb flash drives dont work ?? Any suggestions ? If so what do i need to do?

I need some help! You may not know this and it's okay if you don't respond but I am having some trouble installing Windows 10/7 on my Dell XPS 630i, the system originally came with windows Vista but I can't get it working it stops at completing installation and it doesn't continue oddly enough windows 8.1 is the only OS I can get working, which is weird, but do you have any ideas?

Damn does XP even know what to do with all that CPU power?! XD

Which ISO would you suggest for an XP build?