Thread: Help needed

hai friends,
I have a HP Pavilion dv4 series laptop with VISTA home premium installed from company.
now i want to install Windows Xp on it..
is it posible???

Insert your XP installation disc and select the drive you want to install.

Originally Posted by meetdilip

Insert your XP installation disc and select the drive you want to install.

when i insert XP installation disc.. first comes Setup is loading files... but after 10-15 seconds A blue screen comes with this message...

"A PROBLEM HAS BEEN DETECTED AND WINDOWS HAS BEEN SUT DOWN TO PREVENT
DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER
IF THIS IS THE FIRST TIME YOU'VE SEEN THIS ERROR SCREEN RESTART YOUR
COMPUTER. IF THIS SCREEN APPEARS AGAIN FOLLOW THESE STEPS:
CHECK FOR VIRUSES ON YOUR COMPUTER. REMOVE ANY NEWLY INSTALLED HARD
DRIVES OR HARD DRIVE CONTROLLERS. CHECK YOUR HARD DRIVE TO MAKES SURE IT
IS PROPERLY CONFIGURED AND TERMINATED.
RUN CHKDISK /F TO CHECK FOR HARDDRIVE CORRUPTION, AND THEN RESTART YOUR
COMPUTER.
***STOP: 0x0000007B (0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0X00000000) "


I was not able to move further..Can anyone pls tell me , how can i install xp in my hp laptop. One more thing pls help me from where I can download audio driver. I checked in HP website but there was no driver availablr for Audio...

Read this: General XP Downgrade Guide for HP Laptops - Operating systems and software - HP Support Forum

Originally Posted by Ravi_Ranjan

when i insert XP installation disc.. first comes Setup is loading files... but after 10-15 seconds A blue screen comes with this message...

"A PROBLEM HAS BEEN DETECTED AND WINDOWS HAS BEEN SUT DOWN TO PREVENT
DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER
IF THIS IS THE FIRST TIME YOU'VE SEEN THIS ERROR SCREEN RESTART YOUR
COMPUTER. IF THIS SCREEN APPEARS AGAIN FOLLOW THESE STEPS:
CHECK FOR VIRUSES ON YOUR COMPUTER. REMOVE ANY NEWLY INSTALLED HARD
DRIVES OR HARD DRIVE CONTROLLERS. CHECK YOUR HARD DRIVE TO MAKES SURE IT
IS PROPERLY CONFIGURED AND TERMINATED.
RUN CHKDISK /F TO CHECK FOR HARDDRIVE CORRUPTION, AND THEN RESTART YOUR
COMPUTER.
***STOP: 0x0000007B (0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0X00000000) "


I was not able to move further..Can anyone pls tell me , how can i install xp in my hp laptop. One more thing pls help me from where I can download audio driver. I checked in HP website but there was no driver availablr for Audio...

If you don't want Vista at all, then run DBAN, it will wipe your drive completely, and should allow you to install XP without a problem, since that error is most likely a hard drive error.

Most probably it ll be a HDD error.. If not, do formatting before you install OS..
Any drivers can download directly if you not getting below procedure ll help you...
go to my comp right click go to manage then click on device manage by clicking which all you want you can remove or check for new drivers