Windows XP on M6800

Just wondering if anyone has managed to get Windows XP installed and running on this machine. Currently experiencing STOP 0x0000007B error during setup files install. I should add I have Sata operation set to AHCI. It appears that XP will load with ATA setting, but then I get the same STOP error on booting Win 7. It seems like there should be a driver for XP that supports AHCI.

Or perhaps I will be forced to reinstall WIN 7 with ATA setting.

 

Is there any reason why you couldn't use a VM instead? Installing such a deprecated OS in 2015 on such a high powered machine seems a little crazy.

 

I actually tried that, but for some reason the VM runs terribly slow. What should take about 5 minutes takes 25 with the software I need to run on it. I suspect running it on XP will speed things up considerably.

 

XP doesn't have any kind of SATA driver when installing as far as I know, so you'd need to load them during the installation. Unless you're trying to run something like CAD, video editing, time between the VM and native shouldn't be that different.

When you created the VM, did you allocate enough RAM, etc. to it? I also ran older software that didn't play nice with multiple cores, try allocating a single core to the VM?

 

Which VM software were you using?

 

PM me if you want a VMWare Workstation 11 licence.