Vaio Z11 Xp downgrade help

Hi guys,

I have a vaio vpc-z112gx. I been trying to downgrade to windows xp with a retail disc. I already created my partition.

Everytime I try to install windows xp with a retail xp disc.. it would bluescreen, before the install. I slipstreamed the raid driver with nlite.

Is there another way around this? I read some people have sony xp downgrade discs?

Can anyone help me out? Thanks

 

I'm not familiar with this laptop, but it could be that SATA is configured to be used in AHCI mode in the BIOS. I've had that same problem before on other machines and just switched the SATA mode from AHCI to IDE. Hope this helps.

 

I have a Z122GX (read: exactly the same machine, pretty much).

It came with Windows 7 and I didn't mess with the BIOS to change AHCI/IDE mode or anything. It's running the latest stock BIOS.

To get XP to install using a retail disk, I had to use nLite and slipstream the latest raid drivers. Before doing that, it would bluescreen each time, but after doing it, it worked like a charm.

I think you probably didn't slipstream the right drivers or something like that. Because it should work.

Show me the list of files you're slipstreaming, I'll let you know if I did something differently.

 

Thanks for your help.. these are the two drivers I slipstreamed from the Raid zip downloaded from Sony.

"Intel(R) ICH9R/DO/DH SATA AHCI Controller"
"Intel(R) ICH9M-E/M SATA AHCI Controller"

Did i get the wrong drivers to slipsream?

 

I do believe so. The i-series from intel is not ICH. It's PCH. Platform Controller Hub. Try these for 32-bit. Or these for 64-bit.

 

Hi,

If you downloaded the correct SATA driver. Select Intel Series 5 SATA Raid Controler. VPCZ11 is in RAID configuration. You can usually find that on the bottom most from the available options, you just need to scroll down.

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