Installing XP on HP "dv7 2080eo"

My friend brought me this HP Pavilion dv7 2080eo and I promised to get rid of VISTA and install WinXP to it.

But I never realized how different it is compared to those desktops I've used to.

I made the Vista recovery DVD's and tried to install XP but the installation program halts to this error: 0x0000007b , 0xf78d2524 , 0x00000034 , 0x00000000, 0x00000000

Did some checking from other threads and understood it can be the SATA driver issue. But still didn't manage to fix it. There's no AHCI option in the BIOS menu and the slipstreamed XP disc I made (with a driver) didn't work.


I would be extremely grateful if someone could assist me and tell me:

- Where did you get the proper driver and how did you install XP
- Where did you get all the device drivers for this laptop, after installing XP


Thank you very much in advance. I hope someone is able to help me as I'm losing my nerves with this, haven't really used laptops much before this.

 

Tried everything now, made the friggin XP disc with drivers multiple times but it just refuses to work.

Hopefully someone can give good advice, if not, I will just return this laptop to him. He can then lose his nerves with it... instead of me

 

I don't know how much it will help (I haven't read more than the first few posts), but you might check this thread.