Help stuck in limbo! Downgrading to XP

[patmac6075]

I'm in the process of downgrading to XP on a brand new (I mean just out of the box) Compaq Presario SR5501P Anthlon X2 4200+ Dual-Core, 1024MB RAM, 160GB HDD. It came packaged with Vista Home Basic and I thought I would downgrade to XP Pro.

I made a back-up disk (s), watched the video on Compaq/HP's web-site about how to downgrade to XP from Vista. I have no idea where to find the drivers on Compaq/HP's web-site, so I downloaded what I hope are the drivers from AMD/NVIDIA/Realtek.

I botted with the XP pro installation disc, all goes well until it trys to reboot after making a partition and copying files. It keeps rebooting then tries to make an other partition and copy files reboot and on and on and on.....

Where have I failed??

Thanks in advance.
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[cauzomb]

[edit] added some more info re-read

you did not install the sata drivers using F6 and an external floppy diskette? or create a bootable XP install cd with replaced chipset and sata drivers that go with your model chipset, according to HP, that has an Asus motherboard, model M2N68-LA, nforce 430 chipset; what's the northbridge, southbridge chipset, get corresponding drivers, heard there's trouble with USB drivers, if you can't get usb drivers, you may want to get a usb card, download nforce integrated graphics drivers for the graphics card.

You know how to make a slipstreamed XP install disc? There are several guides using several different applications, but only a couple of them are easy to use. If you are configuring raid sata controller, you need the slipstreamed disc, if not, you can use F6 and the floppy diskette, but you may wind up with endless reboots, due to windows XP unloading the untrusted sata/chipset drivers for the ones built into windows cab files "trusted" durring the final installation process before it reboots.. etc.. If you get reboots after the easy f6 floppy diskette driver method, you will need to configure the installation CD so that it thinks your chipset drivers are the trusted ones


Boot the slipstreamed XP CD and load xp as normal

http://forum.networktechs.com/showpo...61&postcount=2

[cauzomb]

Here's some info found via google search for m2n68-la xp drivers


First results from amd.com