Vista to XP installation help!

Hi everyone,

I currently have an HP dv3510nr laptop with Vista Ultimate x6
installed. Before you begin to read though, please bare with me as
really don't have much knowledge in computers at all.

So after about half a year of using Vista, I decided I wanted to g
back to XP for my own reasons. I dug up and found an old XP SP2 CD tha
I used a few years ago and googled some guides on how to.

So I set the boot order to CD-ROM and it successfully booted off my CD
After it was doing its thing, it suddenly went into the blue screen o
death and after the "...follow these steps:", it said something like (m
laptop screen is cracked so the . . . parts are the words that wer
cracked) "Check for . . . your computer. Remove any newly installed har
drive . . . drive controllers. Check your hard drive to make sure . .
properly configured and terminated. Run CHKDSK . . . for hard driv
corruption, and then restart your computer.

I have no idea how to fix this, I've been searching and searching an
just about tried everything I possibly can to my knowledge. I reall
don't want to bring this to a shop as well and pay $100 just when I ca
do it after I figure out what's wrong, so I'd really appreciate it i
you guys could please help.

Thank you so much in advance, and if you need more information the
please let me know, I'd be more than glad to reply back

--
tae

Presumably you checked first on HP site as to whether winxp drivers are
available for your laptop?

http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html


"tae" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I currently have an HP dv3510nr laptop with Vista Ultimate x64
> installed. Before you begin to read though, please bare with me as I
> really don't have much knowledge in computers at all.
>
> So after about half a year of using Vista, I decided I wanted to go
> back to XP for my own reasons. I dug up and found an old XP SP2 CD that
> I used a few years ago and googled some guides on how to.
>
> So I set the boot order to CD-ROM and it successfully booted off my CD.
> After it was doing its thing, it suddenly went into the blue screen of
> death and after the "...follow these steps:", it said something like (my
> laptop screen is cracked so the . . . parts are the words that were
> cracked) "Check for . . . your computer. Remove any newly installed hard
> drive . . . drive controllers. Check your hard drive to make sure . . .
> properly configured and terminated. Run CHKDSK . . . for hard drive
> corruption, and then restart your computer."
>
>
> I have no idea how to fix this, I've been searching and searching and
> just about tried everything I possibly can to my knowledge. I really
> don't want to bring this to a shop as well and pay $100 just when I can
> do it after I figure out what's wrong, so I'd really appreciate it if
> you guys could please help.
>
>
> Thank you so much in advance, and if you need more information then
> please let me know, I'd be more than glad to reply back!
>
>
> --
> tae

DL wrote:
> Presumably you checked first on HP site as to whether winxp drivers are
> available for your laptop?
>
> http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html


I took a quick look and saw *some* drivers but did not see chipset
drivers so it looks like a sure recipe for disaster

I would not take a chance...so I'd say...keep Vista

(don't give that advice very often)

there are plenty of ways to tweak it for better performance
>
>
> "tae" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I currently have an HP dv3510nr laptop with Vista Ultimate x64
>> installed. Before you begin to read though, please bare with me as I
>> really don't have much knowledge in computers at all.
>>
>> So after about half a year of using Vista, I decided I wanted to go
>> back to XP for my own reasons. I dug up and found an old XP SP2 CD that
>> I used a few years ago and googled some guides on how to.
>>
>> So I set the boot order to CD-ROM and it successfully booted off my CD.
>> After it was doing its thing, it suddenly went into the blue screen of
>> death and after the "...follow these steps:", it said something like (my
>> laptop screen is cracked so the . . . parts are the words that were
>> cracked) "Check for . . . your computer. Remove any newly installed hard
>> drive . . . drive controllers. Check your hard drive to make sure . . .
>> properly configured and terminated. Run CHKDSK . . . for hard drive
>> corruption, and then restart your computer."
>>
>>
>> I have no idea how to fix this, I've been searching and searching and
>> just about tried everything I possibly can to my knowledge. I really
>> don't want to bring this to a shop as well and pay $100 just when I can
>> do it after I figure out what's wrong, so I'd really appreciate it if
>> you guys could please help.
>>
>>
>> Thank you so much in advance, and if you need more information then
>> please let me know, I'd be more than glad to reply back!
>>
>>
>> --
>> tae
>
>