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Hey guys am trying to install windows xp on my system...I have already installed windows 7 on my pc which works fine.

When i booted from the installation disk to install xp ..Firstly it shows the windows installing process then it throws me a blue screen (BSOD) which is like

the blue screen error.

After some research i have found that this maybe due to some bios settings.

So i have made some changes in bios like

the changes

But when i tried install it again the error is repeating again and again..

What should i do actually ??..Do i need to update any bios settings ??..Any help would be appreciated..Thanx

Here is my motherboard

http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P5KPLAMPS/

Driver page

http://www.asus.com/uk/Motherboards/P5KPLAMPS/HelpDesk_Download/

Manual

http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socket775/P5KPL-AM_PS/E4734_P5KPL-AM-PS_V3.zip

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The most likely reason to get this error is that windows has a problem finding the disk it is trying to install itself on.

This can have several causes, but you posted that you already had win7 installed. That probably means a system which is not decades old, which has SATA and which is probably set to AHCI mode. If this is the case then you can not install windows XP in the same AHCI controller without adding drives to XP.

I wrote a post on this here.

Basically, you either: - Set the whole system to AHCI (best option). - Then install windows XP, pressing F6 to load the AHCI drivers from a floppy during installation. - Then install windows 7

Why?

  • AHCI for best performance and least problems.
  • The floppy with drivers (or a slipstreamed XP disc) to load to SATA/AHCI drivers for XP
  • Win7 last. This because Mand how to keep previous versions working).


Alternative:

  • Set the BIOS (which is for all OS's. Thus influences XP and win7) to ancient legacy mode.
  • Install XP.
  • Install windows 7 (which will work but which will miss some features, such as hot-swapping. NCQ (which will hurt SSD performance) etc etc.


Note that you can not just change Legacy IDE to AHCI after you installed the OS. For windows 7 it is possible if you carefully follow the right steps. For XP it means reinstalling.

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That isn't BIOS related. It is an issue with a Windows installation. And if you tweak the BIOS to boot off whatever hard drive, if it ever tries to load that Windows then it'll give that BSOD. You should google the details of the BSOD e.g. BSOD pci.sys And you would then see that -nowhere- does the information there say 'BIOS'. BSODs are almost never from the or to do with a setting in the BIOS.

You could install XP on one hard drive (booting off that hard drive to do it)

Install Windows 7 on another hard drive, (also, booting off that hard drive).

And then tell your BIOS to boot off whichever hard drive you want depending on which Windows you want.

If you get any BSOD there doing that then it's definitely nothing to do with different Windows versions

As for your BSOD, it's most likely nothing to do with mixing Windows versions. Maybe you just have an issue with a Windows installation. Try the method I mention, to simplify things.

Perhaps You could later try to later boot Windows 7 and have it detect XP, i'm not sure if it can but you could try it. If you do try that method, then youu'd be choosing which Windows version to boot from a menu. It's not clear from you if you did that. No doubt that if doing that method, XP won't see 7, but 7 might see XP. So you'd install XP first, then(the later windows OS, so) Win 7 after.

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