Ok here is a long story. Let me try condense it.

Proline M760s Cannot find chipset information  or drivers for it anywhere. I think it has a SIS chipset.

DVD Rom not working.

So I took the Hard drive out and loaded windows XP pro SP2  in another machine. Then installed it in this one again.

In safe mode it works fine but In realmode it freezes within a minute. I can install USB wireless internet to get the drivers if only I can get it to stop freezing. I don't know what is causing the freezing and when I quickly open Program manager I see that there is no overload of memory or CPU.

I can go in on safemode and see in event manager what the last functions were before it froze and try disable it. That is my plan so far.

I also tried this on another machine for an installation. Same results. This is my second installation on that drive.

In event manager I get this. Was wondering which one it could be?

Service control manager.The following BOOT-start drivers failed to load.
AFD
Fips
intelppm
IPSec
MRxSMB
NetBIOS
RasAcd
Rdbss
Tcpip.

You cannot take a drive with Windows installed from one system, put it in another, and expect it to work. You need to install Windows on the system you are going to use.I did it many times before on problems like these and then just afterwards loaded the right chpset and device drivers.

This is the first time I get this problem but it makes sense that windows may load an inappropriate generic driver.

I tried to load it from a flashdisk before and ran into a snag.

Alternatively I can Load the windows disc into the second partition and run setup from there. It USED to work with win98 I haven't done it with XP yet.Aside from the fact you would be in violation of the EULA, XP is not 98. During installation XP makes note of the existing hardware and stores it in the wpa.dbl file. Upon boot, it checks that file against the hardware on the system. Are there ways around it? Yes. But nothing we can discuss here.Thanks Alan

I don't care much for violation of the EULA. I paid for it and I have many legal Liscense keys that my clients buy from me so in effect they pay for it. So if anyone knocks on my door I have ENOUGH legal copies of anything.

My problem like I said before is that I am trying to load a Laptop that does not have a working CD Drive. Therefore I must find another way to get the operating system on the HDD. I don't believe Microsoft is petty enough to have a problem with that.

Right now I am trying to build a bootable flash disk with the disc contents on it.Good morning Eugene66


You can email the company here to get the drivers [email protected]
Here is SIS web site if you want to try them but you really should get them from proline http://www.sis.com/single_page_session/page.aspx?region=en-global&m=624&rsn=119

My self just to avoid any issues with EULA / installation issues & my time that I would invest I would just replace the DVD drive. Just REMOVE the DVD drive and look for the part number and then do a google search. Most DVD drives are about 40+ dollars

I do not know if your your laptop supports the option of USB booting like thumb drives. Maybe if does support USB booting it may boot to a external DVD drive?

The way you are trying to accomplish to install the OS seems so much harder than it has to be not to mention the possible issues with the OS and EULA violations etc.

Plus XP is almost at the end of it's life & it should happen on "Windows XP 4/8/2014" but that date may only be for corporate editions that includes some companies / corporations & I think this will cover home users / end users also. But this date has changed many times & may change again. Something to keep in mind

Well I hope this helps you, Mike   Good evening Eugene66

      I just found the drivers for XP on that model at the web site http://www.proline.co.za/Product/SearchDrivers.aspx then click on ANYWHERE then click on your model M760S then there is two options 1 for Win7 and one for XP when you click on XP look to the left and the drivers are there.

I hope this is what you are looking for, Mike Thanks a a lot Mike. I got therm at last. I marked this solved and opened another thread for the freezing but it seems I don't know how this forum works well enough yet. So lets then just continue under the old topic shall we?

Now after I loaded windows on the laptop itself with a USB flashdisk HALFWAY through setup where it asks for launguage prefferences it freezes again.

I tried to boot it in safe mode and I got a blue screen saying my Video drivers are faulty. But they are generic windows drivers? How come it worked in safe mode when I loaded the operating system on another machine and then installed the hard disk in this one, but when I load it on this one direct it does not even want to work in safe mode?