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When I got into the office this morning I found a Dell D630 waiting for me that'd only taken two weeks to arrive due, I'm told, to waiting for a battery. Anyway. The machine had turned up with Vista installed on it. The University is rolling out Vista slowly, but it's by no means well supported yet, and there's still a lot of unknowns with it. Popping in the XPSP2 CD I'd got ready resulted in the laptop giving me a BSOD, with the helpful error message of STOP: 0x00000007b. I've got an XPSP3 CD which resulted in the installation finding no drives to install to - this was a little more helpful. To resolve this, pop into the BIOS (hit F2 during startup) and change the SATA operation mode from AHCI to ATA, and also disable the Flash Cache. Once done, you should be able to install XPSP2 or SP3 as you would normally. Re: Installing Windows XP over a Vista installation on a Dell Latitude D630
Gary (another one), <E-Mail> / 10 July, 10:32am
Mate, you're a legend. I've been trying to install XP over vista for weeks & found this tip & it worked first time! Thank god for Google :)
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EW du Plessis, <E-Mail> / 23 July, 6:37pm
Hello Please help! I formated the hard drive of my D630 and then try to reinstall WINXP again. But with no luck. I don't have the Operating intallation CD any more. The Operating system CD that came with the laptop was a Vista CD anyway. But I want to install WINXP. The laptop boot from my WINXP cd but it doesn't detect the hard drive. But I know the hard drive is still working. Please help.
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do you need to change the settings back
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Paulo Becker, <E-Mail> / 20 October, 4:45pm
Thanks a lot man, I got the WinXP installation working with this tip :) Did you try switching to SATA operation after the OS was installed?
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I have been having nothing but trouble with this machine, i have had Dell replace the HD the Mother board and various other bits and they told me it is now fine, but still problems blue screens error window messages, so i think i now have too get Vista off this machine and install Xp can you tell me how to achieve this please
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Hi there, I went into the BIOS and all those settings you mentioned above are already turned off. I still get the same STOP error. Any other ideas?
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wow gold, <> / 13 August, 9:06am
To resolve this, pop into the BIOS (hit F2 during startup) and change the SATA operation mode from AHCI to ATA, and also disable the Flash Cache.
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