[XP/W2k3 x86 on Modern Hardware]

I was never able to get the Optane 905p working on the z390 dark. I'm guessing it only works on the PCI-E version of the drive.

[XP/W2k3 x86 on Modern Hardware]

I'm trying to get an optane 905p working on my z390 dark with XP SP3. It sees it as a PCI device on bus 7 and it is recognized in the bios. However, it is not recognized as a drive in the OS. I used the storport.sys with SMART support, and the StorAhci_V1.0_20200928.rar. Should I need to do anything other than replace storport.sys?

Edit:

I think I found the two files I missed in the previous archive. Playing with it more now.

Edit:

I'm now using the storport.sys, stornvme.sys, and stornvme.inf from the 905p suggestions archive. I see in event manager that \Device\RaidPort3 and \Device\RaidPort4 and \Device\RaidPort5 encountered an error with stornvme.sys. It then seems to try to make a crash dump and fails.

Edit:

Disabled Raid in the bios. The message says the error is on "\Device\RaidPort3". Attempting to update the driver for the NVME express controller just iterates the RaidPort (then, RaidPort4...5...etc)

[XP/W2k3 x86 on Modern Hardware]

Now that you mention it, I actually have one of the PCI-E intel optane drives. I completely forgot about it. I wonder if I can fit that into the build. Thank you @Dietmar!

Edit:

Looking at optane a bit more and its really cool. TBH when I first bought the drive, I was merely copying a freenas user's build trying to learn from it several years ago. I didn't completely understand why they were picking it. Will be keeping an eye out for more.

[XP/W2k3 x86 on Modern Hardware]

I finally got XP working on my z390 dark. Turned out the CPU I received was dead.

I feel like its been discussed before, but I'm struggling to find a good resource for installing XP to NVME. I'm worried about buying one and then its not compatible. Is there a gotcha, like a particular brand to prefer for a driver? I feel like I read something about Samsung working better, but I either can't find it again or I dreamed it.

[XP/W2k3 x86 on Modern Hardware]

Hi @Dietmar

I’m trying to make a build around the z390 dark, but a lot of the references seem to be lost with the thread removal. Do you possibly still have the files/changes available for reference?