today just bought a compaq presario B1286T , had read from 1st page, have burn the cd , but when come to restarting windows during format it pop up the blue screen      now i away from home cant hv usb floopy    so sad . after some reading on previous thread this blue screen pop up due to hardware error, previously i also having having same problem during formating for my old desktop, after changing ram & cd rom it will be ok again... will try for a external cdrom see wether can success 

hi there..

i just bought a compaq cq40-101tu using intel core2duo.. im having trouble installing xp in it.. i've tried using sp3 also cannot.. here is the spec of  the laptop

Intel core2duo P7350 (2.0GHz)
160GB sata
X4500
2048MB DDR2

i really tried everything that i know to mke it detect but still cannot..

pls email me at bones.ajp@gmail.com