hey guys, my friend bought this 4730zg, and I was helping him to install windows xp, but I tried 5 different XP installation discs, and all had the same problem: when it goes to "setup is starting windows", BSOD comes out and screws me. anyone encountered this problem before?

anyway, I think it's a good deal, for 2199 you get lots of stuff, namely 3470, but sadly not core 2 duo. And except for the fact that it's acer, it's rather good.

1. Vista sucks, eats too much ram (o.0 I'm a vista user)

'cos my friend uses old software, and he was scared that Vista might not be able to run '02-'03 software, and he's too used to xp, that's why. I'm trying to make a dual boot for him, but I'm stuck at the first part: BSOD on xp installation start. I don't know why, I've slipstreamed SATA drivers into the windows setup, so it couldn't be hard disk problems.

uh huh you mean the EISA partition that acts as a recovery partition right? I'm not formatting my hard disk as I don't want to lose my genuine copy, I remember installing XP onto my 5920g without any problems while not losing my vista partition. I don't know why.. BSOD gave a INACCESSABLE_BOOT_DEVICE error. Is it that XP setup is unable to read the EISA partition? (weird because if it can't i shouldn't have xp on my own 5920g)

edit: uh i changed sata mode to ide and it works

This post has been edited by Artix: Apr 19 2009, 11:50 AM