Problems with Windows 2000 Installation (iaStor.sys corrupted)

Important Drivers Specific: Intel AHCI/RAID Drivers
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Hi all i have been trying to install Windows 2000 in my old computer Dell Dimension 4600i Series with chipset 865PE or 865G (SouthBridge: ICH5/ICH5R) 3 days, yesterday i discovered thanks to this forum why i always receive a blue screen in the installation, the problem is my BIOS is in AHCI mode (i can install Windows 7 without any problem) and BIOS dont give me the option to change it to ATA mode, then i need include with Windows 2000 the drivers, i tried with nLite and with a Floppy F6 but i always receive this error:




I tried with Windows XP and the same… :frowning: somebody can help me? @Fernando

Thanks all.

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@sanandreas :
Welcome to the Win-RAID Forum!

The error message you got is typical for a driver with a wrong architecture (32/64bit), which doesn’t match the architecture of the OS.
Which Intel AHCI driver did you use and where did you get it?

Regards
Dieter (alias Fenando)

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Hi @Fernando i used this:

(the option of 0.26mb)
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/downloa…-Desktop-Boards


by te way i am from Alicante :stuck_out_tongue: (i saw the image of forum’s welcome page)

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@sanandreas :
The XP driver you have linked doesn’t support an Intel ICH5 Southbridge running in AHCI mode.
Please give me the HardwareIDs of your on-board Intel SATA AHCI Controller.

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The picture in your first post shows that you were trying the installation in Virtual PC 2007- that means normally that your real hardware has nothing to do with the emulated hardware? As far as I know VirtualPC 2007 uses its virtual disks always as IDE- drives?

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@lfb6 that image is from internet

@Fernando i am trying something, i searched the number painted on chipset (FW82801EB) and i arrived here:
http://pdf1.alldatasheet.es/datasheet-pd…01EB-SL73Z.html

then in SATA Controller PCI Register Address Map i saw “device identification” (82801EB)

and i searched it (82801EB), i found it:
https://www.dell.com/community/Storage-D…er/td-p/2869497

the post say “the SATA driver”: VEN_8086&DEV_24D1

and i found it:
https://smartpctools.com/drivers/Intel(R…2_Vistax32.html

now i am preparing all for installation only left is rufus finish and i try it

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this time i get blue screen error :confused:

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@sanandreas :
Intel ICH5 and ICH5R Southbridges do not support AHCI at all.
Look >here<.

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I think i found correct driver:
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/downloa…-Desktop-Boards
The problem is it comes like .EXE and i dont know how to install it, from floppy? How?

Thanks again

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@sanandreas :
The linked package contains just Intel Chipset Device INF files and no real storage driver. I have extracted the package for you.
Attached is the related INF file (and the +.CAT file) for your Intel ICH5 SATA Controller. You need just to unzip it.

Intel-ICH5-IDE.rar (6.65 KB)

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i get this error: http://www.mediasmartserver.net/blog/wp-…09/IMG_2328.JPG
i copied the files you uploaded to me in the floppy and press F6 in the Windows installation, then i get error

Thanks again

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@Fernando i think for Intel 82801EB doesn’t exists the: “Ultra ATA Storage/Sata Controller”, i only see “Ultra ATA Storage Controller”…

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[Strings]
INTEL="Intel"
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_24D1.DeviceDesc="Intel(R) 82801EB Ultra ATA Storage Controllers"
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_24DB.DeviceDesc="Intel(R) 82801EB Ultra ATA Storage Controllers"
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_25A2.DeviceDesc="Intel(R) 6300ESB Ultra ATA Storage Controller - 25A2"
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_25A3.DeviceDesc="Intel(R) 6300ESB Ultra ATA Storage/SATA Controller - 25A3" 
 
source:ich4ide.inf
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This should be no surprise for you, because only TEXTMODE drivers (= storage drivers with the suffix *.sys and an associated TXTSETUP.OEM file) can be loaded via F6.
I repeat: Since your system has an Intel ICH5 Southbridge and no Intel AHCI Controller, you should neither integrate nor load any Intel SATA driver.
Try to install XP from a clean (= untouched) XP SP3 source.
The file named ich5ide.inf is neither a driver nor required to get XP installed. One XP is completely installed and the Device Manage shows a “missing driver”, you may load it, but it is not required at all.

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What version of Windows 2000 do you try to install? It should at least be SP4?

You might try this driver: http://alter.org.ua/soft/win/uni_ata/, ‘F6’ files seem to be in the root- directory. (Just found it when googling)

There seem to be some people who want to keep Windows 2000 alive and a user named “blackwingcat” is reported to have created a sata/ ahci driver for W2k (but ahci is not your problem). He’s mentioned in this forum, too (link).
(https://msfn.org/board/topic/149233-kernelex-for-win2000/ from that thread)
(http://blog.livedoor.jp/blackwingcat)