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Note that a stop in installation due to not having drivers for devices considered 'mandatory' for booting the full setup after textmode, the error message will show something in the vein of: Hard Disk Drivers:ДЎ) Due to Windows XP not having the drivers for SATA controllers, the installation results in a BSOD. (The list is not updated so any new BIOS would not be present on it).Д¤) In case you need functions that are provided by the ACPI HAL, these can be setup as individual scheduled system operations after the installation.

2: ACPI is enabled on the basis of the GoodACPIBios list and the ACPIBiosDate.

1: ACPI is enabled at installation if an ACPI BIOS is present.

0: ACPI is disabled at installation, regardless of the system BIOS.

For the sake of documentation, the options correspond to: The option for ACPIEnable need to be set to 0 instead of the default 2 (or 1 for some installers). ACPI:ДЎ) Most modern machines (and all desktops) will show up as non ACPI compliant for the XP installer due to the changing of ACPI standards and the BIOS lists not being updated.Дў) For MOST cases the ACPI HAL is not required for the system, in this case you can press F7 at the start of setup while in text mode (at the point where setup asks you to press F5) to change the mode from 'ACPI compliant' to 'Standard Computer'.ДЈ) In the rare case where ACPI disabling does not work in text mode(for some newer machines), the 'Txtsetup.sif' file in the setup for XP needs to be manually edited.

If any of the ports are USB 3.x (depending on the xHCI controller), then NONE of the USB ports will work.Д«elow are Abhi's notes on each error found and what was required to get a system work, but alas without USB or networking capabilities.

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No working xHCI driver for XP could be found.

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In the same way USB controllers, the sound card and networking WILL have issues (probably be unusable with the onboard controllers on newer machines.)ДЈ) If you do decide to settle on a slightly older machine for XP, try and find one that was built for Windows 7 (no problems with xHCI) or for Windows 8 ( without a BIOS update) as these will use the old EHCI standard (or have compatibility modes that disable xHCI in their BIOS as long as it hasn't been updated) instead of the newer xHCI standard for USB contollers. Although basics functions of the display adapter should work with generic drivers, any advanced features will not work unless you get an old external dedicated graphics card with XP drivers.

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Simply not worth doing!ДЎ) It is highly recommended to choose computers up to and including the Optiplex 780 (and equivalent ~2010) as the BIOS has legacy compatibility modes for the HDDs which makes installing XP much simpler.Дў) Although the method below will get you a working install of Windows XP, device drivers are still hard to come by. The exact procedure will vary by exact hardware used, so nothing written up below.But SSD dies within 6 months or so since XP doesn't have the tools to 'trim' SSD cells (memory storage locations). Presumably anything newer will present these problems, too.ДЄlso, using SSD drives with XP requires lengthy workarounds and thus generally 'not a good idea'. XP will not install properly or at all on Skylake (6 Gen) Intel processors, due to drivers. It seems however that new AMD machines may be easier to get a working install of Windows XP on as there are a few USB drivers available (these may also apply if you have an AMD, VIA, TI or Renesas controller on an Intel machine (unlikely)): Note that all information on this page pertains to Intel machines only and documentation on AMD machines (although that option has not been tested) can be found at the link below. What is the Dell oldest computer we keep for reuse, and why?.Windows 7 won't work on (most) NVMe hard drives, per Dell.