Hi there. I would appreciate some help.
I have bought a dell Xps 430, which came with Windows Vista premium home.
The machine is for use as a music production system.
As expected most of my vst plugine and instruments does not run stable, or at all.
Therefore I want to downgrade the machine to Windows XP professional Service pack 2.
On my previous machine all was running fine, but the machine was old.
Got the Quad core and 3 GB ddr3 ram, specifically for making music.
I try and format the system, but as soon as Windows setup boots from the installation CD, and starts unpacking brand new machince blue screens with pci.sys errors.
I found an apparent solution to make a slip streamed bootable XP service pack 2 disc, as my version of Windows is witout service pack 2.
Apparently making a slip streamed bootable XP SP 2 disc is the only solution for this problem according to everything i have read on the subject.
http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic16553.html
and
http://www.theeldergeek.com/slipstreamed_xpsp2_cd.htm
After successfully making the disc and trying to format again, i still get blue screen error messages, saying my hard drive might have errors or a virus, adn I must perform chekdisk /F
I have tried everything, but still get blue screen after blue screen when I want to format pc with Windows XP.
This copy of XP works fine on all my other pc’s
and I have never had a problem with it, and the disc is also as brand new and not damages, and tested it again on my other machine and it works on it.
So i’m left to believe that you can’t format an XPS 430 with vista back to XP.
Please help as I’m out of solutions and the machine will be worthless to me if I can’t use my music software i want have been using.
Many thx.