SRQ wrote:

since some later 90s games work faster on those.

I have no idea what could possibly be talking about. Unless you've got tons of RAM, XP on a 933 will be quite unpleasant.

Anyway, have you tried Googling? http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/fo … f2-8f121118a1d1 suggests that the specifics of the error message are important. What sort of installation CD are you using? You might want to try making a slipstreamed version with the latest patches and service packs.

I've found that 2K atleast has a little bit faster opengl, not much but why not dualboot? I've used both an MSDN vanilla SP3 disk and a slipstreamed disk with all updates as of april, both broke.
TBH I would rather have XP work, but I have no idea where to even begin with that problem.

So what is the specific error message XP is giving you? Did you look at the link?

the other message is 0x00026c.

your installing xp on a separate drive ?

Same drive, split into two 15gb partitions, since 2K or even OS/2 has no problem installing to the second partition I don't see why XP would.

SRQ wrote:

the other message is 0x00026c.

Perhaps you can try restoring win32k.sys, as discussed in that link?

SRQ wrote:

Same drive, split into two 15gb partitions, since 2K or even OS/2 has no problem installing to the second partition I don't see why XP would.

And yet, here we are.

You should try hiding the first partition (which should be trivial with any disk-management utility) and see if that makes any difference. You can also try changing which partition is marked as Active.

Are both of the partitions primary partitions, or is one of them a logical partition inside of an extended partition?

They are both primary, I use Partition Magic 8 for my dual booting.
I'll try that, but I'm installing clean so I don't see how it will help.

E: Honestly I would rather fix 2k, but the XP error might lend a clue to what's wrong with 2K.

you could try removing all your addin cards then installing
can you get another copy of xp (incase it is corrupted)

ps: 2 primary partitions ?
I would try 1 primary 1 extended and 1 logical drive on the extended partition

Davros wrote:

ps: 2 primary partitions ?
I would try 1 primary 1 extended and 1 logical drive on the extended partition

There's no need to bother with that when there are only two partitions, particularly because it makes it more difficult to multi-boot. ("Primary" is something of a misnomer.)