How to install XP on Lenovo ThinkPad E40

How to install XP on Lenovo ThinkPad E40

 

The following describes how to install XP in E40:

1. Change the SATA mode to compatibility.

Restart XP before it is officially installed. Press F1 to enter the bios, select Config → SATA → mode, and change from ahci to compatibility. In this way, the XP installer has been cheated, make it think that your SATA hard disk is a pata hard disk, and install the SATA driver after XP is installed.

2. ThinkPad E40 for xp driver: how to search and download quickly

Download the driver from the Lenovo official website.

3. Install the driver and application software after installing XP

Recommended driver installation sequence: chipset driver → video card → sound card patch → sound card → wired Nic → wireless Nic → other network or Bluetooth devices → card reader → camera → mouse (touch pad) → Power Supply → hotkey patch → random ThinkPad software → SATA hard drive.

The power driver also needs to be installed, otherwise there will be something in the Device Manager that cannot be identified.

A. the SATA hard drive is the most difficult to install and abnormal. It should be put to the end!

B. AMT (Intel (r) Management Engine interface driver) is useless. It is best to install it. Otherwise, XP will constantly prompt that a PCI communication controller needs to install the driver. I have installed the driver anyway.

C. thinkvantage toolbox requires. NET Framework 3.5. Other thinkvantage software often requires. NET Framework 3.0.

D. The wireless NIC driver on the official website has a bug. We recommend that you use the driver genie to download the latest driver version.

E. IVT (Intel turbo boost technology) driver is only available in I5/i7 CPU.

F. All drivers must be downloaded from the official website (NIC and wireless Nic can be downloaded using the driver Wizard to find the latest version). Otherwise, compatibility issues may occur.

4. Install the SATA driver

Note: No matter whether Intel has a new version of SATA drive, you must download it from the Lenovo official website!

Download the XP driver and double-click it to decompress it to the default path (C:/Drivers/Intel (r) SATA controller ahci driver folder ).

Click Start> Run and enter devmgmt. MSC, go to the Device Manager, find "Ide ATA/atapi controller", double-click it, right-click the content starting with Intel (R, select "Update driver"> "Install from list or specified location"> "do not search, I want to select the installed version ".

Click "Install from disk"> "Browse", find the decompressed folder (C:/Drivers/Intel (r) SATA controller ahci driver), and select "iaahci. INF ", then select" Intel 5 Series 4 port SATA ahci controller ".

Restart and Press F1 to enter the BIOS. Change the SATA settings back to ahci. After Entering XP, the driver will be automatically installed. After the installation is successful, restart again!

 

 

Install the ahci driver on ThinkPad E40 XP

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} "> Press F1 to enter BIOS --> config --> Serial ATA (SATA) when the ThinkPad icon is enabled, change ahci to compatibility, and press F10 to save and exit.

In ahci mode, entering the XP system will lead to a blue screen, because XP does not have its own ahci hard drive. There are two solutions: You can enter the bios and select the hard disk mode as compatibility, so that you can smoothly enter the XP system, but if you have installed Windows 7 and XP on your computer, switch the hard disk mode back to ahci when you enter win7, Which is troublesome. If it is ThinkPad, you can download the ahci driver XP under the Lenovo official website,: http://think.lenovo.com.cn/support/driver/detail.aspx? Docid = dr1268816045923 & doctypeid = doc_type_driver

Installation Method: Download the driver ahci21380sa08ww0000.exe from the compatible mode first. After installation, the driver will be decompressed in the C:/Drivers/Intel (r) SATA controller ahci driver directory, and then go to the Device Manager ", find the ide ata/atapi controller, right-click it, and choose standard ahci 1.0 Serial ATA controller or Intel (r) 5 Series 4 port SATA ahci controller to update the driver.-> NO, temporarily not-> install from list or specified location-> do not search, I choose to install by myself-> install from disk-> browse-> select iaahci under the driver directory. INF-> then select Intel (r) 5 Series 4 port SATA ahci controller from the list for next installation... then restart the computer and change the hard disk mode to ahci in bios. Then, if you enter XP, there will be no blue screen.

 

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