dell vista - downgrade to XP pro - blue screen at "Setup is starting Windows" 0X0000007B

H,i,

New DELL with Vista Business, need XP pro on it (could not select from Dell
site ).

Booting XP pro CD, all drivers appear to load in until "Setup is starting
Windows" txt appears for 10-20 seconds then BLUE SCREEN ERROR with
*** STOP 0x0000007B

I have tried:

- disable support for all non essential items in BIOS (usd, quick boot,
power mgt etc).

- removed PCIx16 card and unsing onboard

- remove 1Gb of ram (1gb left)

- Its NTFS on C and D

- Sata drives.

Stuck. Can anyone help ?

Dell E520
XP CD (without SP2)

Thought about using a third party partion tool to format drives but cant see
why that would help being that its NTFS already and i cannot get to the XP
setup stage whereby it lets me format.

Thanks for your time.
Scott

bios update - will give that a go.

got it,

had to disable RAID support in BIOS and use ATA instead.

Scott

[onetimeonlyposter]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:06:55 +0100, Scott wrote:

> I have tried:

You should have read this before
http://woodcontour.com/images/upg.pdf


--
The next version of Windows? Windows piñata
Piñatas are made from easily breakable materials. a bright container
surrounded by blindfolded children breaking the
piñata in order to collect the candy inside of it.

Which SP is on the CD? You should slipstream SP2 onto the XP Pro install
disk. Will create a "cleaner" install than having to update after the
install of XP. You also need the drivers for the RAID and/or SATA drivers
and enter them from floppy or burned CD by pressing F6 when prompted on the
setup. Not all devices on newer systems will have XP drivers available for
them so you need to be careful dumping Vista to install XP. Make sure you
have all the motherboard chipset, video, sound, network, SATA, RAID, etc.
drivers before attempting to install XP Pro on a downgrade.


"Scott" <s@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:OObDPN0sHHA.1728@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> H,i,
>
> New DELL with Vista Business, need XP pro on it (could not select from
> Dell site ).
>
> Booting XP pro CD, all drivers appear to load in until "Setup is starting
> Windows" txt appears for 10-20 seconds then BLUE SCREEN ERROR with
> *** STOP 0x0000007B
>
> I have tried:
>
> - disable support for all non essential items in BIOS (usd, quick boot,
> power mgt etc).
>
> - removed PCIx16 card and unsing onboard
>
> - remove 1Gb of ram (1gb left)
>
> - Its NTFS on C and D
>
> - Sata drives.
>
> Stuck. Can anyone help ?
>
> Dell E520
> XP CD (without SP2)
>
> Thought about using a third party partion tool to format drives but cant
> see why that would help being that its NTFS already and i cannot get to
> the XP setup stage whereby it lets me format.
>
> Thanks for your time.
> Scott
>
>

Hope you checked for driver avilability first, and are aware that this may
invalidate your warranty/support

"Scott" <s@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:Ot29bh0sHHA.2164@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> got it,
>
> had to disable RAID support in BIOS and use ATA instead.
>
> Scott
>
>

On Jun 20, 10:43 am, "Scott" <s...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> got it,
>
> had to disable RAID support in BIOS and use ATA instead.
>
> Scott

I sure hope this works for me. I tried a bunch of things to get XP to
install but I get the same "Stop code 0x7B blue screen". Dell told me
to run fdisk and create new partition...didn't work obviously. I'm
glad I'm not the only person out there who bought a Dell E20 who isn't
sticking with Vista Home.

Thanks for posting the fix. I'll see if it works for me too.

Anthony

I had the same thing. Once using ATA it's been fine since.
Hated Vista.

<busyuqboy@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1182488984.825946.216630@p77g2000hsh.googlegr oups.com...
> On Jun 20, 10:43 am, "Scott" <s...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> got it,
>>
>> had to disable RAID support in BIOS and use ATA instead.
>>
>> Scott
>
> I sure hope this works for me. I tried a bunch of things to get XP to
> install but I get the same "Stop code 0x7B blue screen". Dell told me
> to run fdisk and create new partition...didn't work obviously. I'm
> glad I'm not the only person out there who bought a Dell E20 who isn't
> sticking with Vista Home.
>
> Thanks for posting the fix. I'll see if it works for me too.
>
> Anthony
>

pc has been perfect with XP for me too : )

thanks for posts
Scott

I have the same problem a new Dell XPS 720 with Vista Ultimate, after a week
of trying I`ve give up. Partitioned the drive today and after burning the
raid driver I required started to load my old XP disc, pressed F6 for third
party driver and when it asked me to press "S" to install drivers it kept
saying place the floppy in drive A .
I do not have a floppy drive so unless someone has any ideas it looks like I
shall have to switch off raid. Anybody know how???

"Scott" wrote:

> pc has been perfect with XP for me too : )
>
> thanks for posts
> Scott
>
>
>