ASUS F5GL Install XP problem

This weekend I played around with newly bought ASUS F5GL.

  • Intel Core Duo Т2390;
  • 15.4″ WXGA;
  • 2048 MB RAM DDR2;
  • NVIDIA GeForce 8200;
  • 250 GB SATA HDD;
  • Integrated LAN, WiFi, Bluetooth, WEB cam and VGA out.
Vista and Windows 7 installed like a charm, but XP and Knoppix initially refused to work on this system. Knoppix just silently hanged somewhere in the middle, but XP ended up with BoSD BSoD as soon as installation files were copied and setup should began. It threw out a message, that "A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer." And this is what you will get always if you try to install XP SP2 with default BIOS settings to ASUS F5GL. To resolve this issue you whether need to set SATA operational mode from Enhanced to Compatible in BIOS, or install drivers that will allow SATA host controller to use Enhanced mode. Enhanced mode is not all that useful as it sounds, so in most cases I recommend just to switch back to older Compatible mode. However if you need such exotic features such as hot-plugging you can update drivers as well, it is not that hard after all.

Here i made a quick video how to set SATA to Compatible mode


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binary said…
BSoD, not BoSD :)
5 Aug 2009, 11:18:00
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