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Fujitsu Siemens Scaleo E // OS installation

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callebalik

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Hi,

Recently bought a Scaleo-E since the the form factor and the RGB Scart output made me curious. Computer is working great but would like to start fresh by reinstalling OS. Currently it's running XP MCE 2005 but would prefer a slimmed XP Pro. Having a hard time finding correct drivers for the hdd. I have even used "Double Driver" to collect all currently installed drivers and slipstreamed them into an XP MCE 2005 iso using nLite. Even tried other install media (XP Pro SP2) with lots of SATA/ACHI/RAID/IDE drivers. Still the installation can't find any drives. Also unable to find options in the bios to change how HDDs are presented. Windows 7 installation can see the drives but won't let me install to the volume as it says the volume is not bootable...

Anyone that has had similar problems? Anyone sitting on the actual Scaleo E install/recovery media???

Thanks in advance,
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If the hard drive is in AHCI/RAID mode, you'll have to press F6 when Windows XP setup starts, it will prompt you on the bottom of the screen. It won't bring the driver selection up right away, you'll have to wait for it to load the other drivers.

When it prompts you for drivers, you'll need to use a floppy disk with the AHCI/RAID drivers for the machine and add those. If you don't have access to a floppy drive, you'll have to do some complicated steps in nLite.

Installing Windows XP With F6 AHCI/RAID Drivers From USB Only

How to install Windows XP with builtin F6 floppy drivers for AHCI/RAID disk using USB thumbdrive only.
www.prime-expert.com

Just slamming a bunch of random drivers into the slip stream isn't going to do anything, they need to be told to be available during the DOS portion of the setup. Manufacturers generally call the drivers "F6 Floppy" or TXTSETUPOEM or something along those lines. I've never used nLite so I can't help you with that part of it.

From some brief research, it looks like there were at least two revisions of the unit. The earlier one was a Pentium 4 something with a i915 chipset. The later is a Core 2 something with a Q965 chipset. Both will require different F6 AHCI/RAID drivers.
 
Thanks for helping out @GiGaBiTe ! Was not aware of the drivers having to be in a different format from the windows ones. Makes total sense. Will look for f6 drivers then and try to slipstream them into an ISO. As you mention, I have no floppy drive accessible.

My revision has the i915 chipset with a Pentium 4. Specifically "Intel Grantsdale - G i915G/GL/GV"

Storage Controller looks to be (according to AIDA32)
- Intel 82801FB Ultra ATA Storage Controller - 2651
- Intel 82801FB/FBM Ultra ATA Storage Controller - 266F

So basically sweep the internet for f6 driver of the above mentioned?

Cheers,
 
This may be what you need, the third download at the bottom of the list (f6flpy-x32 boot drivers)

oemdrivers.com

Intel Matrix Storage Manager Driver 8.9.0.1023 (Windows 7/Vista/XP) | Device Drivers

The Intel Matrix Storage Manager Driver version 8.9.0.1023 provides essential functionality for managing storage configurations on Windows 7, Vista, and XP systems. This driver facilitates data protection, performance optimization, and RAID management, ensuring reliable and efficient storage...
oemdrivers.com oemdrivers.com
 
I got exactly the same machine not so long ago. There is no OS installed but I think that might be the correct one but it's Finnish :(
archive.org

RECOVERY XP MCE SP 2 FI FUJITSU SIEMENS : FujitsuSiemens computers : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Operating System - recovery DVDWindows XP Media Center Version 2005with update rollup 2For fujitsu Siemens computers(need Drivers & utilities DVD also)
archive.org

My machine has no TV cards, only an additional PCI network adapter, but normally there is an onboard-one.
I am currently thinking about, what to do with it. First I will try and get the correct recovery media XP-MCE-2005 Edition.
 
I have the VERY similar Fujitsu-Siemens Activy 570. It also used to be Pentium 4, but embedded Win 7. The housing with the buttons and the VFD is almost the same. But I pulled out the mainboard and cut out the rear to support a standard ATX-IO shield and now there is a more modern compact matx board inside, fanless CPU, and currently still running Windows 10, plus a low profile geforce and twin DVBS-2-TV card. I have two different drivers for the VFD where my favourite is LCDhype with which I can control the display by myself using a simple to learn script language. So the display displays system status, TV-recordings, Winamp music title and music frequency analysis and a lot more. For the buttons I have a HID plugin which makes them available for Mediaplayer, Winamp and Windows Mediacenter. Yes, WMC, there are hacked versions of it on the green-button forum which can run in Win 10 and even 11. So WMC still makes the TV recordings, but I also can use DVBviewer and Kodi...

Currently I am looking for a new mainboard, prefered fanless CPU, to support Windows 11. The problem is that the FSC powersupply does not have all the pins modern mainboards have.

You can see pictures here: https://www.kodinerds.net/thread/51086-umbau-fujitsu-siemens-activy-570-mediacenter/
 
I have someone in the background (former FSC engineer that still has contact to the support team) in order to get the original recovery media. I'll stick to the original system. I will use XP MCE 2005, audio format for all music will be opus (--music). Video will be DVD mpeg2, skystar2 for tv.
 
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