ok, a friend of mine bought an ACER 5683 WLMi Notebook, which comes with Vista Home Premium by default. He wants to have XP installed on the machine, though (i couldn't care less, so please don't get into a vista/XP fight).
Now the problem is, I cannot make the computer boot from his XP CD: The blue screen pops up, indicating that all components get installed properly (keyboard.sys, driver.cab etc etc.), but the second everything it is finished copying everything from disk and in the top left corner it says windows is starting up (the first time during installation, still on the blue first screen) the computer hardlocks with a BSOD. We veryfied the disc is ok by getting past this point on numerous other computers, but on that one it is a no-go.
what could be causing this? the thing just (2 hours ago) came back from RMA. something still fubared? vista home premium (which was pre-installed) runs fine, though...
Any idea?
Now the problem is, I cannot make the computer boot from his XP CD: The blue screen pops up, indicating that all components get installed properly (keyboard.sys, driver.cab etc etc.), but the second everything it is finished copying everything from disk and in the top left corner it says windows is starting up (the first time during installation, still on the blue first screen) the computer hardlocks with a BSOD. We veryfied the disc is ok by getting past this point on numerous other computers, but on that one it is a no-go.
what could be causing this? the thing just (2 hours ago) came back from RMA. something still fubared? vista home premium (which was pre-installed) runs fine, though...
Any idea?