Vista To XP Asus laptop HELP!

[Abyssa]

I just bought a new Asus F7SE Laptop, it came installed with Vista Home Premium.
I own a retail box of Windows XP Professional and I want to install it on there. When I went through the install it reaches a point where it says there is no hard drive found.
I formated the hard drive with partition magic and tried it again it is the same it could not find the hard drive.
I went into the bios to see if there is anywhere to change the hard drive setting from SATA to PATA and they have not included it in the bios.

Any suggestions? I need Help, I called Asus but got a guy I could not understand a word he was saying. Help me please

[trulad]

I had to change it from SATA to IDE on my lap top before it recognized it. I also went from Vista to X.
trulad

[Abyssa]

I don't have that option in the bios, not I have found anyways.

[glc]

The only other option is find a driver, if one exists, and use a floppy drive to install it. It is very possible that there is NO support for XP.

[Abyssa]

there was no way to get this laptop to install windows xp. according to asus the hd controler doesnt support windows xp... i sent it back.. i am getting anoter asus that supports xp thanks eveyrone for your responses

[Negeva]

Shame you never tried using n-lite to slipstream the both the SATA driver and the latest service pack. It might have worked as anything pre-Sp1 wouldn't have worked - at least never has for me with SATA.

[glc]

Well, that assumes that there is even a SATA driver available for XP. It sounds like there is not.

[Abyssa]

Originally Posted by Negeva Shame you never tried using n-lite to slipstream the both the SATA driver and the latest service pack. It might have worked as anything pre-Sp1 wouldn't have worked - at least never has for me with SATA.

I tried nLite with the help of asus there are no sata drivers for xp, no way to make it work with xp whats microsloft going to do with this vista? most folks dont want it and prefer xp

[glc]

Don't blame Microsoft - blame Asus for not building a XP-compatible laptop. I have a lot of respect for Dell - they offer a XP "downgrade" on a lot of their laptops and desktops.

[Negeva]

Seems odd, as every other ASUS laptop I've looked at have XP SATA drivers; though did have to look at the chipset manufacturers site to find them - at least within the UK market. Does make me wonder if there isn't an XP driver what about linux?

[kilgoretrout]

I agree. That's undoubtedly an intel chipset motherboard. According to this it's and intel PM965 chipset:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...SUS-_-34220314

Just a little googling around and it appears that this is the driver you need for the sata controller which apparently must use AHCI:

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Deta...ng&PrdMap=2800

The intel PM965 board has an ICH8M chipset controller which is supported by this driver for winxp according to the Read Me file:

http://downloadmirror.intel.com/14848/ENG/readme.txt

If you want to scour around the internet, you could probably find the other WinXP drivers for your laptop. It appears Asus just doesn't want to bother with it. If you think about it, it makes sense that winxp drivers would exist for most hardware manufactured these days. There are a lot more people running winxp than vista right now.