Blue screen of death on XP install
Hey, new here and I'll jump right in. So I got a new laptop about a week ago with windows 7 and have had nothing but problems with it. I'm using quite a bit of older software and almost nothing works. I also had a vista computer with the same issues.
I'm trying to downgrade to XP, have all the drivers and whatnot and I'm ready to go. The problem is after I boot from the disk the setup starts and configures alright, but once windows starts I get the blue screen of death. Any thoughts?
EDIT: Could it be because windows is detecting a newer version on the HDD? If that is the case how exactly would I go about wiping the drive, juggling disks and somehow coming out with XP?
Just got the stop codes from the blue screen. 0x0000007B (0xF78D663C, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000).
Anyone know anything?
I'm trying to downgrade to XP, have all the drivers and whatnot and I'm ready to go. The problem is after I boot from the disk the setup starts and configures alright, but once windows starts I get the blue screen of death. Any thoughts?
EDIT: Could it be because windows is detecting a newer version on the HDD? If that is the case how exactly would I go about wiping the drive, juggling disks and somehow coming out with XP?
Just got the stop codes from the blue screen. 0x0000007B (0xF78D663C, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000).
Anyone know anything?
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What brand and model of laptop do you have? When The Windows (XP) installation is in the early stage, there's a little notice that appears asking you to press F6 if you have drivers to install. That interrupts XP's installation for just such a case as you describe. Maybe we can figure out what drivers you need to manually load.
BTW, if you don't mind telling, what legacy software are you running that's causing problems. Is it really that important?
I can confirm Leonardo's suspicions, as I just reinstalled Windows XP on my Dell 1735 in the last couple of days. A 0x0000007B stop indicates the OS could not access the hard drive because there is no compatible driver loaded. I went through several of these before I got my laptop working in AHCI mode.
If you can get into your laptop's BIOS, look for an option to run the SATA controller in IDE mode (it probably is set to AHCI by default). Selecting IDE mode should allow you to boot up. If you wish to use AHCI mode as a rule, we'll need further info on the laptop (brand and model, as Leonardo mentioned).
I have an Asus N81Vp.
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I will try to boot up the SATA controller in IDE mode, but wouldn't that slow down the harddrive? As for the legacy software, I'm not too sure what that means
On a laptop's hard drive, you probably won't notice any difference at all between IDE and AHCI mode. If it works fine in IDE mode, I'd say just leave it there unless you know you have a specific need for AHCI mode (for example, I've heard of AHCI mode being required in order to dual boot windows and some linux distros).