Unsupported Graphic driver for windows 7 - How to get it?

The following model is officially stated as unsupported product with windows 7. What i mean here is there are no official driver release from intel.

Intel® 810 Chipset Family
Intel® 815 Chipset Family
Intel® 82810 Graphics and Memory Controller Hub (GMCH)
Intel® 82815 Graphics Controller
Intel® 82830M Graphics and Memory Controller Hub (GMCH)
Intel® 82845G Graphics Controller
Intel® 82852/82855 Graphics Controller Family
Intel® 82865G Graphics and Memory Controller Hub (GMCH)
Intel® 82915G/82910GL Express Chipset Family
Intel® 830 Chipset
Intel® 845 Chipset Family
Intel® 852/855 Chipset Family
Intel® 865 Chipset Family
Intel® 910 Express Chipset Family
Mobile Intel® 910GML Express Chipset
Mobile Intel® 915 Express Chipset Family
Mobile Intel® 915GM/GMS, 910GML Express Chipset Family

So the big question is how to get it?
In this blog i covered several of them, and i received a lot of email asking driver for their model. There are no term such as "genius" that will find the driver and share it. What people like me always did is we collect as much driver version that released. After that we try to modified or install it in many ways that available.
So, some of the drivers that i posted here are from the testers, i give a recommendation and they test it, sometimes it take one driver and success, and sometimes up to more then 8 drivers before we found the right one.
Maybe Intel want us to move on and get new stuff which is up to date since most of the graphic above is too old for this new generation. but i believe there are many of you out there don't really care about the performance or etc. Base on my experience and opinion, if Intel release official drivers for the model above, your pc will run windows 7 smooth and steady.

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Windows 8 Driver

Like always, when there are new Windows, most of us want to try it even it still BETA release. I blog for drivers about 3 years now, and a lot happen after the windows 7 release. The most common problem is no support for old model use old devices.
So, i try windows 8 this week, I'm not really interested on the OS but to see what did we need a new drivers for windows 7?

Let us go to the Vista age for a while to look to the whole situation,
When Vista released, you can't use driver from windows XP, and most of the model design for Vista did not have support in their official site for windows XP. Later, many Vista User dissatisfied with the performance and want to use XP. Then the big problem is, you can install XP, but where is the driver?
Similarly when windows 7 comes, people still want to use XP or Dual-boot , so where is the driver? this is the reason i build this blog, as my journal, my reference, to gather drivers and solution for this type of problems.

Now comes windows 8,
There are no problems for newer model that design for windows 7, practically windows 8 driver are similar to those windows 7. I hope you guys don't misunderstand me, if you want to talk about direct X 12 or else, it is different from my intention. Example, after installing windows 8 you have no audio, so I'll try to find the driver so you get your audio in windows 8, but if the audio Quality is not as great as windows 7, it is a different topics.Not that i don't want to help, but i know myself, i know few things, and i don't speak something that I'm not really know about it.

I spent most of my time study the drivers and thousands of model, I'm not study the hardware specification in term of performance. The strength of window 7 is it automatically install most of your driver, and i believe this Microsoft enhance this feature,like em my desktop, after windows 8 installation, all driver installed properly.


Here i have initial opinion about the drivers:

CHIPSET/Motherboard etc:

INTEL
Inte 3,4,5 and 900 installed automatically, or by windows update. You can also use windows 7 drivers from intel website.

AMD:
South bridge Driver and Co-processor;
Windows 7 and vista drivers will do.

Nvidia:
Use windows 7  and vista drivers. For Older model, you modified inf to get it work.
XP driver may work on some model, the difficult thing is to get the right version. (laptopvideo2go is the best place to start)

GRAPHIC:
the pain is on older Intel graphic, like 82825/852GM GME and 915 graphic chipset. The method for windows 7 requires several steps to complete. Sadly in windows 8 the file in system are different and yet i still didn't found the solution. The best thing to do is look at microsoft update catalog, search for you chipset and install it manually.
For other graphic chipset, manual installation using Vista or 7 drivers normally work.

OTHERS:
card reader, bluetooth, LAN, Wireless,
You fuys don't really have to worry about this, from my experience, this driver not bring to much problems for users. Commonly these drivers installed along with windows installation.

I only tested with my desktop and not with any laptop yet.
This blog work with comments, all article and driver base on request, test and feedback, if you have something to share, I'm so grateful for that.



(p/s: again sorry for my English, as long as you understand my message)

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Application Crash/Freez general solution

This is general post about application that crash/freez. I write this post as a reply to this comment:

waris said...

hi, i read u r reply and i feel that u can help me out, plzzzzzzzzzzz when i start working on MS word after some time my system get freez and it become hang in that situation no option remain except direct power off through power button plz help me wat i do

1.Uninstall and reinstall.
-One of the common thing to do is  to unistall and reinstall the software. Restart your PC and see if it fix it.

Complete unistall guide: (make restore ponit first!)
Unistalling via control panel is not completely remove all the files.
(example ms office)
-unistall from control panel. -office 2007
-remove form program file -c:\program files\office 2007
-remove from registy (click start select run and type REGEDIT) and the rest read here

2. System Restore:
-this is also a popular solution. You can read it here.

3. Low memory capacity and background running program:
- RAM require to support any application that run in your system. If there are too many application running at the same time, it will consume your memory and causes crash/freez/slow performance. Some of you maybe know or don,t that when you start your PC, there are programs that automatically start. The solution is

a. Remove unnecessary startup program:  
- Click start and run type MSCONFIG (win xp)  click start and type MSCONFIG on search box (win 7)
-  Select STARTUP, there you will see many programs that run when your PC start.
-So, remove any unnecessary programs by uncheck the checkbox. It will speedup your PC and may solve your crash problem.
-NOTE: it is important to differentiate which is the system file and which is not. Example AdobeARM - you can remove this.


b. END process at Task manager.
-open task manager by right click at taskbar and select Task Manager or press CTRL + Alt + Del
-select Process, look if there high memory usage. Right click on unncessary program and select end task.

The good thing and The bad thing abou A and B.

Good:
-it will speed up your pc
-and it may solve your problems.

Bad
-there are problem to check which you have to terminate and not to.
(normally i use google to check it)

4. High temparature: -well get urself a fan.

5. Virus - antirus etc( suggestion: avira and malwarebyte)

thats all, have anything to share? leave your comments

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Install Ubuntu Inside Windows (WUBI)

In this tutorial I will show how to Install Ububtu inside windows (dual boot windows and ubuntu)

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I. Downloading ISO and WUBI file
II. Selecting Partition
III. Installing Ubuntu
IV. Some Notes
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I.  Downloading ISO and WUBI file

1. Ubuntu ISO file : Download here
(select the latest version from drop down menu and select 32-bit if you are new to ubuntu)
(note that the latest is 10.10 and over time there will be other release)

click on the picture to enlarge

2. WUBI Installer: Download here

Save both file and wait until. download finish.

II. Selecting Partition

1. You can use any partition you want because it will not clean up your data on the selected partition.
2. You can easily remove ubuntu installation via add/remove program from control panel.
3. Make sure you partition have at least 17GB free. (minimum space is 15GB)

III. Installing Ubuntu

1.  Here i select one of my partition -  D partition, and i rename it with ubuntu.

2. After finish download both file, palce them in D drive (or any partition you want to install ubuntu)

3. Double click on WUBI and you will see this screen.

by default, it will select C partition as installation drive, so you have to change to drive you want to install.

4. change the following:

1- Installation drive : change it to the partition you want to install ubuntu.

2 - select the size of your ubuntu installation, minimum 15GB (make sure after installation the space not less then 2GB.

3 -Insert password, it a must to continue installation.

---click Install--- 

5. After clicking install it will begin to install:

6. When it finish, you will be prompt to restart, restart your computer to continue installation.

7. After restart, on the boot selection select ubuntu.

8. After that, a screen will appear with a countdown 5, 4.... and at this part, you do not need to do anything, just wait it install untill it reboot. After reboot your ubuntu installation is complete.

IV. Some notes

1. So after finish installing, every time you turn on your computer you will see the OS selection, to use ubuntu simply select ubuntu.

2. You can remove ubuntu installation from control panel -add/remove program.

3. After log in to your ubuntu - run updates first.

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P/s: nothing important here, just if you want to read something (^^)

Ubuntu provide wubi to install ubuntu, i try wubi and it took me like forever to install it. I notice that wubi will first downloading the ISO file for installation (about 1-2 hour to wait). So, my idea is to download the ISO and place it with the wubi, so it will not download the ISO but instead use the ISO i downloaded earlier and it WORKS. I also notice that downloading ISO separately are faster the WUBI downloading it.

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Check Your Driver In Windows 7

Anonymous said...
I am using Compaq Presario CQ41-110AU and Windows 7, but I have no idea whether any drivers already installed or not :(
because I asked my friend to re-install my laptop.
How to find out what drivers have not been installed yet? and I also need MS Office for Win 7, how to install it?
Thank you in advance.

This guide will show you how to check your computer device driver so that you can identify which driver you need to install. This guide apply for windows XP, Vista and 7.

1. First we use device manager to check our devices. To open device manager click start and on the search box type DEVMGMT.MSC

2. Then a device manager will open. There you will see list of devices of your computer.

a) A computer with all the drivers installed will show no yellow mark in the device manager

b) while the computer with incomplete driver will show yellow mark. But for your graphic (Display), it will show Video controller with yellow mark or under the display adapters it will show Standard VGA Graphic adapters.

3. So now you can identify weather your computer driver is missing driver or not. So the problems is how to get the right Driver.

a) If you know yor computer model say Lenovo Ideapad s10, so just type "Lenovo Support" on google and enter the support site. So browse for your driver there.

b) If it appear that you didn't know what is your model. You can get the hardware ID for the devices and search the hardware ID on google.

c) Lastly, You can request your driver here in Request section.

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Disk Management COnsole View is not Up to Date

This problem occur often in windows 7 when you insert card ready or other storage (USB) in your computer.
In this post i will describe:

1. Overview : some information regarding the problems
2. Solution: To overcome the problem


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1. OVERVIEW
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Normally this happen when you insert CARD READER or Other storage (2ndary storage) and your computer failed to detect it. This normally happen in Windows 7 and may occur in other Operating system. Regardless of 32 bit and 64 bit the solution is still the same if you having the problems which i describe above.

So to see if the storage detected or not we open disk management to check the devices. for those who don't know how to open device manager, click start and type in DISKMGMT.MSC

After that the disk management windows will open and you can see your storage appear but when you right click you can't format, change driver letter or path or even select properties:

Here is the error you will get when you try to format or select properties.

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2. Solution
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1. Open device manager by click start andtype DEVMGMT.MSC

2. A device manager windows will open, click VIEW and click at the SHOW HIDDEN DEVICES.

3. After that look for UNKNOWN DEVICES devices list, if you can't find it, expand the storage volumes list.

4. Ok, next right click on the Unknown devices, select uninstall,
5. Then right click again on any place there, select scan for hardware change.
6. The a new hardware Wizard will appear, follow the on screen instruction.

Your PC will detect the card reader after the installation finish.

If you have any question or suggestion to improve this post, please leave your comments.

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Check Devices Driver in Windows 7

In this tutorial I will show how to check your device driver in Windows 7.

TO check PC or laptop have all the drivers it need, you can use Device manager.

OPEN DEVICE MANAGER
Click start and on the search box type DEVMGMT.MSC

CHECK THE HARDWARE
If there are drivers which yet not installed in your system, you will see the list with yellow mark.
For Graphic, it will show the exact graphic driver model, if it show Standard VGA means you need to update your graphic driver.

If you have any problems or questions leave your comments.

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SOLVED: Windows Media Player cannot play this DVD because a compatible DVD decoder is not installed on your computer.

OK, this afternoon, a guy from FIJI asked me about the DVD problem. He said that he cannot play the DVD with the error

"Windows Media Player cannot play this DVD because a compatible DVD decoder is not installed on your computer."

OK this cause by missing decoder or the decoder not installed. If you browse Microsof website the solution is:

click start - run - type dvdupgrd /upgrade

OK, for me there is another solution that i like and my favourite which is installing codec packs. The price is FREE.

I recommend installing these codec pack to solve the problems:

K-lite codec pack (FULL)
XP codec pack
Tiger Player/MPCstar

Not necessarily you need all of those, in my PC I install Klite Codec pack, tiger player, Real Player, Real alternative and Windows Media Player Classic.

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Acer driver for windows 7

After windows 7 arrived, many acer laptop user including me try the beta version and now there are several version available. So, the question after the installation of windows 7 is the driver.

HOW TO GET ALL DRIVERS FOR MY ACER (WINDOWS 7)?

Before we do some installation, please run automatic updates and see if there are any updates for your driver.
to check your driver installed or not, just simply click start, on the box type DEVMGMT.MSC and press enter, you should see a windows open with list of your devices. If you see any yellow mark,then you need to find driver for it.

1. Ok first of all the new model shouldn't worry about it because Acer provide the drivers (if you don't have ot or dont find it just leave your comment, ill list it for you) - it all should be listed in acer support page.

2. for bit older model - your vista driver may work. If not try right click on the installer and select properties, then select compatibilities and select windows vista, the click apply. After that right click again and select run as administrator.

3. Find the drivers on the components manufacture site. Every model has it own manufacture, sch as audio eg: Realtek . So if acer just provide a vista audio driver for realtek. just simply go to realtek site and download the latest driver for windows 7.

4. For very old model - maybe quite difficult for you to find several driver. and some of you can't event enable aero. Ok for this one i can assist you, just give me your model and your hardware ID.

P/s: if you like to do some experiment, why not try download driver from other model but with same manuufactre component, and same model, say atheros AR5xxxx, download and test, but please if you new to hardware and driver, please don't try this experiment on your laptop. cheers

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Compaq Audio Driver

Compaq have many model that equipped with certain manufactures audio components. From my experience working with Compaq/HP, there are 3 major type of AUDIO component they use which is REALTEK, IDT - high definition audio devices and conexant.

The problems occurred When Windows Vista arrived, many laptop such as CQ40 and CQ35 model have problems with windows XP installation and installig the Driver especially AUDIO. However i have write posts to solve the problems which you may refer here:

Slipstreaming Guide To install Windows XP

Slipstreaming guide here is a method for those who do not have external floppy drive. And for those who have the external floppy drive may install the XP directly without the slipstreaming process.

For the Audio especially for compaq CQ40 and CQ35 (may also work with vista bae model which use IDT),
I write 2 post how to install the audio driver:

General Audio Installation

and for those who have problems with audio disappear after restart this poost may help you.

• Audio Disappear After restart - part 1
• Audio Disappear After restart - part 2

For those who use realtek you just need to download the latest realtek driver from the realtek site.
Hope this article help and if you have any question feel free to leave your comments.

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How to check your laptop and computer driver

For those who new to computers and drivers, simply drivers needed to connect your hardware and your operating system,
example you have the card reader slot, card reader device/slot is a hardware that equipped in most notebook and laptop.
So after your laptop installed with Operating system, you need to install the card reader driver to enable your windows to recognize your hardware so that you can use it.

DO MY COMPUTER/LAPTOP HAVE ALL THE DRIVERS NEEDED?
-So, if you are thinking do your laptop/computer have all the driver needed? There is a software/tool to check and manage your devices and drivers which already installed along with windows, it is DEVICE MANAGER.
This tool is very useful especially when you have problems to install drivers and also to check weather your laptop have all the driver needed. So to check your drivers, first we need to know how to open device manager.


OPEN DEVICE MANAGER AND CHECK YOUR DRIVER:

1. Click start and select run.

2.. Type DEVMGMT.MSC and press Enter

For windows Vista and Windows 7
-click start and on the search box type DEVMGMT.MSC-


3. A new windows will open and you can see your devices listed there.

This are the picture show all driver installed correctly.

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This picture show there are missing driver, how do we know that there are missing driver? Just look at the device manager, if there are yellow exclamation/Question mark on the list like the picture below means the driver still missing .

So now, open your device manager and check it now =)

p/s: Installing all driver is NOT A MUST, example you do not want  use your LAN/ETHERNET connection, so no need to install that.

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4 unknown devices in Windows 7 RTM 64 on dv7

before proceed with the steps to solve your problems make sure you check the ID, the ID for dv7 i have is ACPI/HPQ0004 so it is the:

ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection
Download

this will solve 3 unknown device and the other one left is:

HDD protection feature:
Download

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HP dv6500t ICH8M LPC Interface Controller - 2815 problems

If you found there are unknown driver with ICH8M LPC Interface Controller - 2815 on the device manager follow this steps:

1. Download this drivers: HP Quicklaunch Button

and above that you mught require to install .netframework 2.0 before install the Quicklauch. Another tips is make windows XP SP2 works better with drivers for laptop model which design for windows Vista.

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Unknown Base System Device Windows 7 in Compaq CQ

So if you finish installing windows 7 you'll find most of the drivers installed automatically but if you see unknown base device with yellow marks on device manager it is the card reader driver:

Download

right click and select run as administrator. install and done!

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Webcam Crash Problems MSN Messenger (SOLVED)

Before continue reading the entire post, I would like to stress this post is specific for Compaq laptop but you can also apply for other type if you know to choose your driver. I made this post because i got an email asked about Webcam crashed using MSN Messenger and she report back that its work for her. SO here is my original reply to her email and hope help you too, if you still having trouble( Especially different models) leave your comments.

here some suggestion that may help you:

first update your youcam driver:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=ob-55812-1&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&os=2093&product=3675225&lang=en

restart and if it still crash follow next step:

first download and istall the update below:

windows vista service pack 1 update: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=90E2942D-3AD1-4873-A2EE-4ACC0AACE5B6&displaylang=en

then web quickplay update:
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=321957&prodSeriesId=3752105&prodNameId=3786352&swEnvOID=2093&swLang=13&mode=2&taskId=135&swItem=ob-70555-1

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Solving HP Media Center m495c audio devices and mixers quitting

Go here and get KB921883:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2996b9b6-03ff-4636-861a-46b3eac7a305&displaylang=en

Then go to your Start/Run and type:

services.msc

Scroll down to Windows Audio and double click on it.

Start the Windows Audio service.

Close the services.msc window.
Run the KB921883 patch that you downloaded.
Reboot your computer.

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Windows XP cannot resume from hibernation

This can happen if the hiberfil.sys file becomes damaged or corrupted.

http://www.softwarepatch.com/tips/hiberfil-sys-xp.html

You "should" be able to boot windows into SAFE mode (press the F8 key during boot-up) and safely delete the file.

Reboot afterwards, and Windows should start up ok.

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Vista Recovery Disk Free Download

Before Downloading i really stress you to read the the description below.

this review is Quoted from:http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,71039/description.html

It looked like Microsoft was finally going to do the right thing. Beta versions of Vista SP1 came with a modern equivalent of the old Windows Boot Floppy--a Start Menu option called "Create a Recovery Disc" that burned a Windows PE-based emergency CD. Alas, Microsoft removed that feature before SP1 shipped, but not before NeoSmart turned the disc into an .iso file and made it available on their site.

Running on the Vista version of Windows PE, the Recovery Disc is basically a Vista installation disc minus the install files. It even has an "Install now" button that asks for a Product Key before failing. You're better off clicking the Repair your computer button. Among its Vista-only options are a tool for diagnosing and fixing startup problems, a version of System Restore that uses restore points on the hard drive, the restore portions of Vista's backup program, and a memory diagnostic tool.

Note: This link takes you to an external Web site, where you can download the latest version of the software.

--Lincoln Spector

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD

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Downloads Drivers For Windows XP and Vista Guide

Intro

Not a formal knowledge or based on true definition, i just write out this post to let you who don,t really understand what is driver and how to find your own driver. This due to high search that resulting user can't find proper driver for thier computers.

Why Computers need driver?

driver is essential to connect your system and hardware. Basically i will define a computer is combinations of hardware and software.

hardaware - is something that you can touch like monitors, cpu, mouse, keyboard and etc.
software - is something that you can't touch such as windows xp(operating system, simplified as OS), microsoft office suite, adobe photoshop, nero and etc.

A computer need both hardware and software to connect to each other so it can works properly.
As a computer hardware combined and became a comlet set of computer, it need an OS tthat is operating system, such as windows Xp, Vista, and etc.

After you have the opertaing system installed on your mchine, you need driver to conect between the operating system such as audio (sound chipset and speakers), keyboard, graphics and etc.

How to find the proper driver.

The key to find the proper and right driver is based on this aspect:

1. Operating system:
If Microsft operating system you should know weather it is windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 or the other OS such as Windows Me and etc. Then suppose you have windows Xp you should know weather it is 32-bit or 64-bits. after that you need to find the appropiate model.

2. Specific model number + OS
Weather you choose to find a single driver (audio, webcam etc) or complete set you need to identify the specific model number or product. such as
Gigh definition Audio codec=device type,
v.3.2.2.1= specific model/product number
Windows Xp = OS (sometimes you dont need to enter 32-bits because they will inform for 32-bits or 62-bits)

for the complete set:

specific model+ OS =
compaq presario =model
CQ40-406 = specific which you can find at the bottom of the laptop od elsewhere, they should have that on any laptop produced.
Windows Xp = OS (sometimes you dont need to enter 32-bits because they will inform for 32-bits or 62-bits)

so thats all anything else you need to know just leave your comments and i try to share what i know, besides i would like to learn more if any of you know more about this topics. Gud luck

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Fix ahcix64 file corrupted problems

This post is base on itapac crew comments after he failed 5 times to install windows XP using slipstreaming method and success after he knew the the problems make the process failed.

here is the original comments or you can read the original comments here.

Hye guys,

I'm using Compaq Presario CQ40-406au (AMD). I need to downgred my OS from Vista to XP and everybody in here really helping me. Thanks. I just want to share my problem so maybe next time if there is anybody else getting same problem as mine can solve it easily.

First time i create bootable XP using nlite it's failed. Error "...ahcix64 file corrupted..". My mistake here is selecting x64 from my sata driver. I'm suppose to select x86. But after i realize my mistake, i tried to create another bootable cd and selecting x86 but still the same error appeared. After wasting 5 of my dvd, i realize that i'm not suppose to use the same folder of win xp that i copied to my harddrive because nlite will copy and change all the setting effecting the original file of windows xp that i copied before.

Use the fresh file of winxp if u want to create another bootable cd. I already installed Xp in my compaq cq40-40au and i really want to share this with everybody. :)

The main thing i want to stress after read this comment is.

1. When slipstreaming - any guide you found on the internet will tell you to create a new folder to store the windows XP files, so when you slipstream and failed, you should create another folder, don't load any previous session, create a new folder and repeat the same method.

2. The most important is to know your windows XP bootable CD/DVD, either 32-bits or 64-bits.
If 32-bits use AHCIX86 and if 64-bit use AHCI64, both type of opereating system is different even both are windows XP. If you don't know if it is 32-bit or 64-bits you can find further information here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows

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