[LAU] HDSP 9652+Win 7 == update flash - bye bye Linux audio & Alsa?

[Mark Knecht]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 12:40 AM, Peder Hedlund <peder at musikhuset.org> wrote:
> Quoting Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com>:
>
>>    With older hardware going up in smoke I have new machines and
>> unfortunately you cannot load Win XP on these new machines easily. The
>> machines do not have floppy drives to load drivers during boot, don't
>> understand USB well enough to use something else as far as I can tell,
>> and the XP install disk cannot see the SATA hard drives via new
>> chipsets so it's all sort of a mess trying to stick with XP.
>
> So far, all new PC's I've encountered still have drivers for XP if you
> go to their website.
> The trick to recognizing SATA is to set it to "Compatible" instead of
> "Native" in BIOS. Once you've installed the proper driver you can set
> it back to Native.

Nahh...didn't work on these Intel motherboards. I tried all three
modes available in BIOS. None of them worked. I went so far as to find
a program that allows you to build custom windows install CDs and
tried to get that going but ran out of patience. (In short supply
these days with my blood pressure at 165/110 and the doctors shoveling
pills in me like they were candy...but hey - at least I'm making some
money in the futures market and can dream about playing my guitar some
day in the future.)

Thanks,
Mark