Willing wheels

My virtualboxed windows xp kept asking for damned usb drivers and audio drivers:

• OCH usb2 controller driver
• Intel(R) 82801FB/FBM USB Universal Host Controller
• AC’97 Intel 82801 AA audio driver
• among others…

My xp versions were supposedly Service Pack 3 versions, but looking at c:\windows\ServicePackFiles, folder was empty, thus when windows tried to load usbohci.sys driver it failed to load it from non-existing c:\windows\ServicePackFiles\i386.

What I did was pretty easy, I simply downloaded sp3 cd from microsoft.com and installed it!

Here are the steps:

1. download xp-sp3 iso cd: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/thankyou.aspx?familyId=2fcde6ce-b5fb-4488-8c50-fe22559d164e&displayLang=en
2. start your xp virtual machine
3. mount downloaded cd
4. execute it
5. restart the computer

That’s it. Files now exists where they are expected and drivers start to install.

Right now, error changed and xp is asking for windows xp cd (not service pack cd), to get access to usbd.sys / usbd.sy_ file.

Here, I took these files from an already fully installed xp machine I had, these files were under c:/i386.

Basically, here are the exact files I needed:

• Intel(R) 82801FB/FBM USB Universal Host Controller => first I had to install intel driver: ”Intel82801AAControllerAC97Driverforwin98.exe” then windows asked for “usbd.sy_” which I found under c:\i386\ from installed xp version
• windows asked for “ac97intc.sys” which I found under c:\i386\driver.cab from installed xp version

Now, both sound & usb works on virtualboxed xp like a charm, no more errors.

sources

• http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/thankyou.aspx?familyId=2fcde6ce-b5fb-4488-8c50-fe22559d164e&displayLang=en link to download service-pack3 cd for windows xp
• http://download.driverguide.com/driver/Intel+82801AA+Controller+AC+97+Driver+for+win+98/Intel/d130168.html download link to Intel(R) 82801FB/FBM USB Universal Host Controller driver (or this one: http://www.qc4blog.com/wp-content/uploads/virtualized_xp/Intel82801AAControllerAC97Driverforwin98.exe)

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