So suggestions as to why XP didn't work? Am I missing something? Does XP not work on these machines or does it have to have the latest BIOS version?
I suspect XP and 2000 do not represent (offer) a complete overlay/overlap of HW support when it comes to the Hardware Compatibility List of configurable devices. But since you got 2000 to install you should be able to ascertain the IDE controller drivers which you will require Run Devmgmt.msc Select IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers Select your first icon under the pull down icon list, i.e. the Controller 2000 has installed (NOT the Primary and Secondary Channel) Right Click to Select Properties -> Driver -> Driver Details Tab These are your drivers you will need in XP (For comparison mine are atapi.sys pciide.sys and pciidex.sys). But in my case this is for a PCI ide controller i.e. Intel 82801BA Ultra ATA Storage controller. I'm sure your list will be different. Once you know your required driver list and the means to install properly (i.e. the drivers get copied into <Windows System Folder>/system32/drivers and your inf file to <Windows System Folder>/inf) a install invocation should have a good shot of detecting your IDE controller. Andre' -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Simon Royal Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 7:45 PM To: ThinkPad Mailing List Subject: [Thinkpad] 240X Win 2000 Successful Install... What About XP? Hi After spending all day trying to get an OS installed on my 240X without a CD drive I have finally managed to get Windows 2000 on it. I tried getting XP Home on it. I popped out the hard drive, stuck it in a different laptop, partitioned it into two, installed MS DOS on the first one and copied the i386 folder from my XP CD into the second. Once back in my ThinkPad I booted into DOS and ran winnt from the i386 folder. Under XP it stalled about 20 mins into the installer. Tried it a few times, same each time. Replace the XP i386 folder with the one from my 2000 CD and it worked. Copying was initially slow, I presume it was hard work copying from one place on the hard drive to another place, but it did it and installed no problems. I am writing this email from it. Only a couple of driver issues with video and sound, but I downloaded these from IBM and everything is now fine. So suggestions as to why XP didn't work? Am I missing something? Does XP not work on these machines or does it have to have the latest BIOS version? I always thought 2000 and XP were in the same boat. I would really like to get XP on this beauty. And for the record 2000 on a P3 500Mhz with 192MB RAM screams along, blisteringly fast. It didnt fair too well on my P2 300Mhz with 196MB RAM TP600. Loving this small machine, keyboard isnt too small, some of the keys will take a little while to get used to their location and battery lasts about 3 hours. Fantastic. Simon Simon Royal --- Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - LowEndMac: http://tinyurl.com/macspectrum - Skype: Simon-Royal. --- IBM ThinkPad 240X running Windows 2000 & Apple iBook G3 running OSX 10.4. _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
