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    Newbie question: Install XP to HP dv5 1040en

    Discussion in 'HP' started by civic2, Nov 25, 2008.

  1. civic2

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    Hello everyone,
    I am a newbie in this question, my English are not very good and I had never got such a situation and I do not know what to do. So I found this forum and if anyone could help me, I would really appreciate that. Now about the problem. I have bought a computer HP dv5 1040en with Vista. I do not like Vista, and I want XP (Pro maybe) in it. So, I downloaded Win XP Pro cd and tried to install from it. Everything went well, pressed any key to boot from cd, then it stalled for a minute and gave me a BSOD. I googled for it and if I got it well, then I needed some kind of drivers to integrate to XP CD. I googled how to do it, and I found Nlite program. Is this a good way to do it? And here's the main problem - I do not know what drivers to integrate. Could anyone help me as a noobie with step-by step instructions, what to do to install XP to my PC? Here is it's hardware specification (forum do not allow me to post urls, so it begins standartically): sendspace.com/file/5nuxjk Thanks again.
     
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