How To Install Windows XP into Asus Laptop
If you have to install XP on Asus notebook computer, you’ll be require to use Win XP sp2 or newer version. For better results, it’s good to use XP sp3 off course. So, if you have only XP sp2 CD, you can make a new XP sp3 CD by your own.
Here’s in this tutorial I want to show you how to make Win XP sp3 CD, just follow each steps carefully:
1. Download require driver, patch and program
- Download XP Service Pack 3 components of WindowsXP-KB936929-SP3-x86-ENU.exe here<>
- Put the download file under C:\
- Download the Internet Explorer 7, IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe here
- Put the download file under C:\
- Create a new folder and name it SATA driver. Put this folder under C:\
- Download the SATA driver 32-bit Floppy Configuration Utility for
Intel® Matrix Storage Manager, f6flpy3289.zip here
- Unzip it in C:\SATA
- Download nLite program
2. Create XP sp3 installation CD
Put your original XP CD into the DVD drive. Run the program nLite and click Next. In the page of “Locating the Windows installation”, click Browse => My Computer => DVD drive, a window pops up.
“Select where to save the CD installation files for modification”. Choose or create an empty folder.
Click OK, a window pops up. Click C: => Make a new folder => type New XPCD => OK. Now the nLite starts to copy all the files of the original XP CD into the folder C:\New XPCD.
Click Next. In the page of “Presets”, click Next. In the page of Task Selection, select Integrate [Service Pack], [Hot fixes, Add-ons, and Update Packs], [Drivers], and [Create Bootable ISO], click Next.
In the page of [Service Pack], click Select >> WindowsXP-KB936929-SP3-x86-ENU.exe >> Open. The nLite starts to
integrate the service pack 3 components into the folder of New XPCD. Click Next.
In the page of [Hot fixes, Add-ons, and Update Packs], click Insert >> C: >> IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe >> Next.
In the page of [Drivers], click Insert >> Single Driver, a window pops up, select C:\SATA driver, 2 selections show up, select iaAHCI, click Open, then pops up another window, in which there are more than 10 selections, select Intel® ICH8M-E/M and ICH9M-E/M SATA AHCI Controller, click OK >> Next, a window pops up with a question “Do you want to start the process?”, click Yes. Take out the original XP CD and put a blank CD into the DVD drive.
Click Next. In the page of Bootable ISO, select Direct Burn for Mode, type New XPCD for Label, select minimum 4 x (705KB/s) for Burn Speed, then click Burn.
Now you should see the nLite starts burning the New XPCD. Just wait the process runs completely. After completion, you have a new XP installation CD now which ready to use for install XP on your computer.
