Originally Posted By: taym
BSOD is an indicator or "wrong" drivers, be it not for xp, not for your hardware, damaged, or whatever. Have you tried to download latest drivers from the MB producer?

No. But the drivers are good (they've been used before), just too complex for pre-SP2, I suspect.

I'm now trying the SATA-to-ancient-IDE adapter gizmos on old mobos, but no joy so far there either.

I think this may come down to "install on a really ancient IDE hard drive", then bit-copy to a modern SATA drive (after updating drivers etc..).

Ugly, but it will work.