hi guys! recently i bought a cq60(don't think its out in market yet, employee purchase) that came with freedos. i wanted to install xp professional on it. when i pop in the disc and selected to boot from disc, the screen went blank for like 5 minutes then BSOD.

0xF78DE524,0xC0000034,0x0000000, 0x0000000

^ this came out.

Help? strange thing is when i pop in vista home basic installation dvd the setup immediately started.

Am i stuck with vista? but i seriously prefer xp pro though.

normally when u boot from a winxp disc u will at least go to the blue setup screen right? in my case, after the "press any key to boot from cd", the screen went blank for 5 mins then bsod.

but when i tried installin vista everything was fine..

the laptop came with freedos initially. nth inside.

the bios in my laptop is insydeh20 setup utility which does not hav the option to disable any hardware(etc sata). it can only change boot sequence.

or are there any hidden options in bios?