Hello, all!
I've been attempting to install Windows 2000 on a motherboard with a Q87 (8-series) chipset and a Haswell i7-4770 CPU. After downloading tomasz86's Windows 2000 version of HFSLIP, I inserted the following files into these folders:
In HF: UURollup v1.0d, Service Pack 5.1, KB2722913, KB951978 (and any other prerequisite hotfixes I needed to install BWC's kernel extender), plus a bunch of other up-to-date hotfixes from tomasz86's most recent update list.
In HFCABS: The relevant .cab files from the IE 6.0 SP1 installer as per tomasz86's instructions, BWC's AHCI version 8.9b driver, the update.cab file from BWC's Kernel Extender v2.8i, the latest USB Chipset drivers from BWC's Windows Legacy Update (ininst_autol11.cab).
In REPLACE\WIN\SYSTEM32: acctres.dll, url.dll, and wab32res.dll from the IE 6.0 SP1 installer.
Anyways, my problem is that while I've got setup to start (i.e., get to "Welcome to Setup!") in IDE mode, AHCI mode gives a INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE BSoD. And in IDE mode, my USB keyboard does not work. Since there is no PS/2 port on the computer, I'm stuck here.
I've tried using other versions of the AHCI driver (8.9d and 8.9f, along with the old 7.6 version), the kernel extender (v2.2), not slipstreaming the USB drivers, not using the other hotfixes... basically everything I could think to change. I also tried disabling every extraneous device I could find in the BIOS, as well as setting USB to Legacy mode. Nothing changed the above errors.
I even tried installing Windows 2000 on another computer, installing all the relevant programs/hotfixes, and writing a Visual Basic script to advance the driver wizards so that they would install the USB drivers when I plugged the hard drive back into the Haswell computer. Even though that worked surprisingly well, the drivers broke when I attempted to install the 9.4 Intel chipset driver BWC linked to on his site--the files install, but the drivers fail to load with Code 10 errors on boot. To fix this problem, I dried three or four other drivers from Windows Legacy Update, but they all had the same problem. Compounding these issues, my video card (NVIDIA GT 620) wasn't detected in Device Manager after I swapped machines.
Obviously, the best solution would be to install Windows 2000 on the Haswell computer in AHCI mode without any hacky fixes. But I would be fine with IDE mode too.
Do you guys have any ideas as to what I should try now? I'm plumb out of ideas.