HP Pavilion with XP?

I have a brand new Pavilion 8075 Media Center which is preinstalled with
Vista. I need to have an XP install as well (for testing purposes) so
I tried to install it on a new hd. Got blue screen in the first non-gui
part of the install procedure. HP Support told me that this pc was
designed for Vista and they do not support any XP issues. Sounds weired,
but I don't get any further with them (or with the xp install).

Anyone has experience of this or a clue of what's to be done?

Zeke wrote:
> I have a brand new Pavilion 8075 Media Center which is preinstalled
> with Vista. I need to have an XP install as well (for testing
> purposes) so I tried to install it on a new hd. Got blue screen in the
> first
> non-gui part of the install procedure. HP Support told me that this
> pc was designed for Vista and they do not support any XP issues.
> Sounds weired, but I don't get any further with them (or with the
> xp install).
> Anyone has experience of this or a clue of what's to be done?

You may run into trouble - being a proprietary computer HP may have decided
they would have hardware in it that has NO SUPPORT for Windows XP.

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"Zeke" wrote:

I have a brand new Pavilion 8075 Media Center which is preinstalled with
Vista. I need to have an XP install as well (for testing purposes) so
I tried to install it on a new hd. Got blue screen in the first non-gui
part of the install procedure. HP Support told me that this pc was
designed for Vista and they do not support any XP issues. Sounds weired,
but I don't get any further with them (or with the xp install).

Anyone has experience of this or a clue of what's to be done?

I recently did just the same thing for a customer on an M8000 series Vista
PC, you need to provide the SATA controller drivers via floppy using the F6
option during setup, these drivers can be found on Intel's website. I wasn't
paying attention the first time I booted off the XP disk and missed the F6
option and ended up with a BSOD, I had no problems after providing the
proper driver using F6.

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"Zeke" <zeke@jehenna.com> wrote in message
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>I have a brand new Pavilion 8075 Media Center which is preinstalled with
>Vista. I need to have an XP install as well (for testing purposes) so I
>tried to install it on a new hd. Got blue screen in the first non-gui part
>of the install procedure. HP Support told me that this pc was designed for
>Vista and they do not support any XP issues. Sounds weired, but I don't get
>any further with them (or with the xp install).
>
> Anyone has experience of this or a clue of what's to be done?

David B. skrev:
> I recently did just the same thing for a customer on an M8000 series
> Vista PC, you need to provide the SATA controller drivers via floppy
> using the F6 option during setup, these drivers can be found on Intel's
> website. I wasn't paying attention the first time I booted off the XP
> disk and missed the F6 option and ended up with a BSOD, I had no
> problems after providing the proper driver using F6.
>
Thanks - that was exactly what I missed as well. I'll try that.

Zeke wrote:
> I have a brand new Pavilion 8075 Media Center which is preinstalled with
> Vista. I need to have an XP install as well (for testing purposes) so
> I tried to install it on a new hd. Got blue screen in the first non-gui
> part of the install procedure. HP Support told me that this pc was
> designed for Vista and they do not support any XP issues. Sounds weired,
> but I don't get any further with them (or with the xp install).
>
> Anyone has experience of this or a clue of what's to be done?

Thanks for all your input. I will consider to use VPC, and I'll try the
F6-install. But the bottom line is - is there anyone that has experience
of XP running on a Pavilion 8075?

[h3xb00t3r]

Hello im having the same problem could you post or sent me the link to the SATA controller driver Thanks so much