Need help pleaseee!!!

TonyJ said:

frantic912 said:

try seacrh n check on your BIOS either AHCI is enabled or not...XP doesn't support AHCI

how can i do this? i searched threw my BIOS and i cannot find it?

i think in same category on setting time n date....
it had option to choose either AHCI or IDE

try choose IDE

frantic912 said:

TonyJ said:

frantic912 said:

try seacrh n check on your BIOS either AHCI is enabled or not...XP doesn't support AHCI

how can i do this? i searched threw my BIOS and i cannot find it?

i think in same category on setting time n date....
it had option to choose either AHCI or IDE

try choose IDE

frantic912 do you have a number i could get ahold of you by or a instant messenger? so i can like explain every detail to you?

it is not my Hard drive causing it... ive actually unhooked my hard drive and tryed to run xp installation and i just get black screen after i press any key to boot from cd... i talked with HP support and they told me its my SATA drivers if i cannot disable my AHCI i would need to install the SATA drivers but in order to do this i would need for the windows xp installation screen to show up correct?

mimrah said:

No I'm not gonna convince you to stick with vista but, why do you want to use XP?

On my old laptop, the same thing happened and I was unable to install windows XP

Well, Windows Vista/Windows 7 are memory hogs to me and i use C++ and other programming languages and everything just runs alot smoother and faster with windows Xp. they it IS possible to install xp on my model notebook but im having no luck at all with it i get nothing but a black screen after i press a key to boot from cd it doesnt show the windows xp installation at all to even install SATA or Raid drivers

TVeblen said:

Hi

I had this exact problem using a W7 DVD. I install the DVD in drive and re-start, and the boot loader will stall at "CD Boot Device....Ready__",

Now just hit the RESET button on the computer case to hard re-boot.
Now it will progress to "Press Any Key to Boot From CD".
Don't ask me why this works.

i dont have a reset button its a cq60-413nr notebook

TVeblen said:

Bummer.
I do think you are dealing with a problem on the boot-media end, still. The DVD should run the setup program to a point, before you need to load SATA drivers. If you are getting nothing then I think you are having the same problem I was having - the boot loader was not initiating.

If the setup program does run ("Loading Files..., etc") and then craps out afterward that would be something different.

Yea its weird i don't know what to do with it it has me puzzled O.o... do you have an instant messenger i could message you on?

I FIXED IT!!!!!!!! Thank's for all the help guys... i added more SATA drivers to a XP ISO using nLite and its working now.