It lives….finally gotten it to boot XP. Turns out it was the SATA/PATA converter I got for the DVD drive. Which was behaving for data transfers but didn’t work particularly well for other things. DVD drive switched onto an old Promise Ultra100 PCI card (along with a couple of disks I found lying around) and everything is alright now. So if anyone has a use for a SATA/PATA converter that might have issues with XP, let me know.
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