SSD issue on K97M Pro..

hi, i am putting together a new system and stumbled upon this problem: while loading a fresh install of windows XP 32 bit (not my final OS choice...just cheking before opening the Win10 disc) through a portable DVD player everything looks good, windows starts reading from the disk but approximately 3 minute in the process i get a blue screen saying the following. click on link

andreadebiase wrote: hi, i am putting together a new system and stumbled upon this problem: while loading a fresh install of windows XP 32 bit (not my final OS choice...just cheking before opening the Win10 disc) through a portable DVD player everything looks good, windows starts reading from the disk but approximately 3 minute in the process i get a blue screen saying the following. click on link https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3t-K3IVIol_bDhvMkdkMEFRelU/view?usp=sharing The hard drive is recognized in the BIOS but i do wonder if it has to be "initiated/formated" first? but from the bios....how? and i am not even sure is a hard drive issue....maybe is old XP doing this? if anyone has seen this please let me know what it is thank you Andrea

Sorry but your title is, "SSD issue on K97M Pro..". K97m Pro? No such board. I'm guessing you have an H97M Pro4, or... ?

Since you are using (trying to use) XP, my guess is the problem is related to the incompatibility of XP with a modern mother board and its UEFI/BIOS settings. Specifically, the SATA Mode.

The default SATA mode for a while now is AHCI. If you changed it to IDE manually, then the following does not apply. XP does not have an AHCI driver built in, which most likely is causing the blue screen. Current Windows installation programs don't BSOD when they have a driver problem, and tell us the problem is the lack of a driver.

That is not an SSD issue, but again the compatibility/technology gap between XP and modern mother boards and SSDs. XP has no TRIM support for SSDs, and without an AHCI driver, cripples an SSD's performance.

It's been so long since I used XP, I don't remember if you must pre-format your drives, or use a tool like Diskpart as an option in the XP installer. A Windows 7 and beyond standard installation formats the drive automatically, while the Custom installation option provides some control over that, but still does the formatting for us. You can't initialize or format a drive from the BIOS.

I agree with andressergio, forget using XP with a modern board and an SSD, even as a test. That will only cause problems and doubts about your hardware, as you have experienced. Your test with XP is creating more doubt about the hardware than is actually really there.

Use the Win 10 disk (checking before opening the disk... ???) and don't look back.

Maybe is old XP doing this? Definitely old XP when used with modern hardware, is doing this.