..I bought this HP G50-126NR laptop cheap at Bestbuy a few days ago with Vista preinstalled. It ran ok under Vista with its specs, but not to my liking knowing I can get a bit more performance out of it under XP. I made a back up of the system, formated and tried to installed Windows XP professional w/SP3 via a bootable cd. The “press any key to boot from cd” message appears and I press the “any” key. At this point the screen goes black which is not normal in my experience with installing XP many many times of the years, but the CD seems to spin and be read. After a few minutes of this a BSOD appears stating a generic error message, “A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage.” Any one have any ideas..? Could it be sata driver issues?