Right, trying to install XP on a new Acer Aspire M1640, the preinstalled Vista is of no use to me.
It boots from the XP cd fine, loads all the preinstallation drivers, then gives me a BSOD with the error ...
which as far as i know is unreadable boot device. So i'm guessing the XP SP2 disc doesn't have any preloaded sata drivers, i've checked the Acer site and got the drivers and from what i can tell they're from Nvidia. Copied them to an SD card (new machine has a card reader in the front) and ran through the "F6" driver loading bit. Only it's asking me to insert a floppy disc with the drivers on, which the machine doesn't have!
Thankfully the mobo has an IDE setup too, so i thought i'd load the XP to the IDE unit, then setup the SATA once windows was loaded. But i get the same BSOD when using the IDE (with the SATA drive unplugged)
Any ideas? Do i have to make an XP disc with the SATA drivers preloaded? (and how the hell do i do that!)
Cheers.
It boots from the XP cd fine, loads all the preinstallation drivers, then gives me a BSOD with the error ...
which as far as i know is unreadable boot device. So i'm guessing the XP SP2 disc doesn't have any preloaded sata drivers, i've checked the Acer site and got the drivers and from what i can tell they're from Nvidia. Copied them to an SD card (new machine has a card reader in the front) and ran through the "F6" driver loading bit. Only it's asking me to insert a floppy disc with the drivers on, which the machine doesn't have!
Thankfully the mobo has an IDE setup too, so i thought i'd load the XP to the IDE unit, then setup the SATA once windows was loaded. But i get the same BSOD when using the IDE (with the SATA drive unplugged)
Any ideas? Do i have to make an XP disc with the SATA drivers preloaded? (and how the hell do i do that!)
Cheers.
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