Problem with intalling OS

Hey there,
I've bought an Acer Aspire 5738ZG notebook not so long ago, it came with Windows Vista OS. I'm using it with that OS since 2 weeks now, but i decided to change to OS to Windows XP, cuz I like that more.
My problem is that after I boot the install CD of XP, the process crashed after some time, at this point. It gives me a blue screen, and asks me to restart the notebook. I really want to use XP, so I'd really appreciate if someone could help me.

 

Hi, if there is in the bios change the setting from ACHI to IDE, XP doesn't have the correct drivers...
Chris

 

What exactly this change does? Will I notice anything about it?

By the way I changed it to IDE, now it gives me a different blue screen, at the same point.
It writes:

STOP: 0x0000008E (0xC0000006,0xF740EFEA,0xF78A6A14,0x00000000)

setupdd.sys - Address F730EFEA base at F73ED000, Datestamp 48025277
serenum.sys - Address F78A6A14 base at F78A6A14, Datestamp 00000000

 

Is this a genuine windows xp CD ?
Have you tried installing with just one stick of RAM

 

If you change from ACHI to IDE your computer will be much slower but it will work. you should slipstream your sata driver into your xp disk then you can switch back to ACHI and it should install correctly.

 

lonewolf/minimalis

I have done a number of installs using XP retail disks on AHCI, never seen it fail as a 0x00ps blue screen - usually the blue screen is a perfectly clear DOS box that says "setup did not find any hard disk drives . . . " To avoid this you need the "F6 drivers" (google) for your chipset. Although designed to be on a floppy you may be lucky and the MB will take these on a USB stick and apply them at the stage before this error (aka the screen you posted) by pressing F6. Alternatively or if it didnt work you can make an updated XP install disk using Nlite and the same F6 drivers

minimalis, if you want to try the slipstream suggestion look here
Resolving "Setup did not find any hard disk drives" during Windows XP Installation - How-To Geek

It may be easier to accept the 0.0% performance loss from switching to IDE mode but some acer owners have reported the BIOS defaulting back to AHCI each reboot which is not useful . .

 

Well, I was using geniune Windows XP CD, and it didn't work. I changed SATA settings to IDE in the BIOS, but it crashed at the same point with another error code.
I also tried importing drivers with nLite with no success. (Maybe I did something wrong but I don't know what.)
Acer homepage provides ACHI driver for a F6 Boot Floppy (guess this was BruBoo's idea), but I do not have an USB Floppy Device, so I downloaded a not genuine Windows XP which has some modification in it. And guess what, It's working.
I thank everyone who helped me.
[SOLVED]

 

Hi,

this is most likely due to the fact that your Windows disc was not on SP3 level. You should build your SP3 install disc (with additional Intel Sata drivers inside) with Nlite or similar tools.

I do not want to know what other modifikations were done *shrug*

Michael

 

Under modification I mean that some drivers were added to XP disk:

I could have made that too if I could use nLite properly.

 

I think the michael was referring to the danger of malware being implanted in downloaded versions. It has happened

On the positive side however that driver set looks reasonable. I would now run ad-aware, plus root kit revealer if you feel a bit techie, as well as installing a good internet security suite but aftre that unless you start noticing anything funny (like an empty bank account )you are probably ok