problems installing XP on a HP DV7 1025nr

I bought a HP Pavilion DV7 1025nr (centrino 2 core2duo 2.23ghz, 4gb ram, 320gb hd, nvidia geforce 9600M GT, infinity 17") with pre loaded vista 64 and it is very very slow. I want to install XP but im getting several problems.

I searched this forum and found very useful information to start it but im stuck.

What i have done:

1)Created another partition from within vista 64.

2)Slipstreamed the intel sata controllers drivers on a SP3 disc.

3)I got into the text-mode part of installing XP, formatted the desired partition, copied all files and rebooted.

Then, after rebooting, i got a black screen with random colored ASCII characters and nothing else. It is stuck.

I searched alot and i found another users who had the same problem and i can't figure what is causing this.

Can anyone help me?

 

reinstall vista on it and it will be fast. Xp will only feel faster because the bloat ware will be gone.

 

im planning to have a dual boot system, with both vista and xp.

i need xp very much because of sound hardware (incompatible with vista), besides, the gaming perfomance in XP is better...

i'm without boot, so i can't even get inside vista to use it =/

 

heeeelppppppppppp

 

When I had a similar problem when I was doing the same thing to my gateway, it was because my slipstream was not "good" and the sata drivers were not properly installed. Maybe try to redo the slipstream. I recently dual booted my HDX16 but I installed XP first and then did a fresh install of vista.

 

thanks for the attention man!

i've already re-slipstreamed everything a lot of times, with different install discs, with different drivers.... and i used the sata controller provided by HP support via e-mail, it's supposed to be the right one.


maybe i could try another program to slipstream it? i used nLite, maybe somebody can recommend me any other?

 

fwiw, I used the intel sata drivers in my slipstream. In fact the same xp pro (retail) with sp3 slipstreamed that I used in the gateway also worked for the HP HDX.

 

what a coincidence, i have a gateway notebook too (mt 6828).

it came with Vista and i removed it to Xp, the only thing i did was slipstream the drives into a Sp2 and it worked fine.

i tried the same CD on the HP and i got a bluescreen. when i slipstream the new sata for the HP in the same instalation (also tried with diferent versions of SP2 and SP3), it starts the installation well but in the first reboot i get the same flashing random characters forever and the install process never ends.

 

Yes gaming preformance is so much better in Xp when your using the same exact drivers as vista because they dont make xp ones. ( sarcastic )