Question XP on server

[Lovely technology 2021]

I have a pentium 4 3.2ghz server a HP DL320 G2. 80GB IDE 4GB ram and an AMD PCI GPU. So I put an original XP 32bit home disc in on a USB dvd drive the system loads it, files are transfered then it says XP is loading but the system just freezes up, keyboard LEDs don't light up so I know this to be a hardware stall. I'm just wondering to anyone out there, is there a bios setting I'm missing.

 

[kanewolf]

I have a pentium 4 3.2ghz server a HP DL320 G2. 80GB IDE 4GB ram and an AMD PCI GPU. So I put an original XP 32bit home disc in on a USB dvd drive the system loads it, files are transfered then it says XP is loading but the system just freezes up, keyboard LEDs don't light up so I know this to be a hardware stall. I'm just wondering to anyone out there, is there a bios setting I'm missing.

Since it is a server, you may need to add the disk controller driver during the installation, or may have to slipstream it.

 

[NightHawkRMX]

https://www.nliteos.com/nlite.html

Nlite is a good tool that can be used to slipstream the driver into the ISO used to make the installation media.

 

[NightHawkRMX]

I did have a similar issue to this recently, and it ended up being that the disc I was using was problematic and I had to burn another.

However this also can be a disc drive issue, maybe it doesn't like that it is USB.

Can you use an ide drive internally, even if it's just dangling out of the case for a bit?

 

[Lovely technology 2021]

It's a CD ROM the disk is dvd so not an option ha