HP 7300 trying to install XP pro over Vista

[5tickle8ack]

Hello everyone,

I currently have a HP Compaq nx7300 laptop with VISTA business installed.

I want to install XP pro onto the machine instead but keep getting the same problem. During installation I get the blue screen of death telling me to deactivate the driver named pci.sys. It seems other people have had the same problem even when carrying out clean installs onto a new hard-drive so I don't think it's anything to do with VISTA.

What I've done/tried so far:

Made an XP pro disk with SP2 slipstreamed onto it and also have the SATA drivers installed onto a floppy which I access during installation using a USB floppy drive.

I'm really stuck and pulling my hair out as nothing has worked!

Please help,

James

 

[Edward01]

Hey,

So the slipstreamed XP pro disk with SP2 didn't work? there is a whole thread on it there, (which I presume you've read as you tried the intigrated SP2 methord but wanted to point it out anyway).

http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic16553.html

the general idea seems to be that the PCI-E isn't supported by just windows xp, it needs the service packs.