Problems Installing Windows XP x64 on Intel DG33TL

[ta2]

My friend is having problems installing Windows XP x64 Edition on his Intel DG33TL PC. After doing a search on google for "DG33TL problems", this is the top result. However, we have been unable to replicate the successful Windows XP install disc which the author of the aforementioned article describes:

Installing Windows XP was, in a word, interesting. Windows XP is notorious for its lack of support for RAID drivers and the fact that additional “textmode” drivers can only be supplied via floppy disk. On the DG33TL, this problem is compounded because Windows XP lacks support for the ITE-ATAPI controller. This means that it will load the text-mode setup but it will throw a blue-screen-of-death as soon as it tries to load Windows-kernel based part of the setup.

You can’t install XP without a floppy drive. There’s only one minor snag - there’s no floppy controller on the DG33TL!

Hmm…

Luckily, a really awesome tool called nLite can slip-stream “textmode” drivers onto a Windows XP disk. If you put the RAID, AHCI and ITE-ATAPI drivers on the disk, everything works like a bomb.

I had immense difficulty getting the drivers right. It appears that nLite is full of bugs when it comes to this. To make it work, I had to integrate the RAID and AHCI drivers (for the ICH9R chipset) from the supplied floppy in one pass and the ITEATAPI drivers downloaded from Intel’s site in a second nLite pass. If I tried to do them all at once, it broke - spectacularly. I have read a few forum threads on this topic and I think that my method will work with any ICH9-based motherboard.

We "successfully" integrate the drivers into the XP install disc but get a "iaStor.sys cannot be found" error. Anyone had experience of this problem or know how to fix it?

Thanks in advance,

ta2

[ta2]

We have found the following articles which may help, we will try them tonight:

Intel Keeps Me on my Toes « Prismatic Art
Intel Continues the Volly « Prismatic Art
Intel DG33TL XP Driver Archive « Prismatic Art