Downgrading from windows vista.

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  1. Neoteam1

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    Can someone help. Im running windows vista on a laptop and want to downgrade it to xp cos its a slow laptop. My trouble is when I downgrade doing a fresh reboot I install xp then I get the blue screen. Why is it not letting me downgrade to xp.
     
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    most likely your hardware is incompatible i would install windows 7 how much ram you got?
     
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    3GB DDR2 but it lags iv tried.
     
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    What does the blue screen error message say?

    You probably need to go in to the laptops bios settings and disable AHCI / set the hard drive to operate in Legacy IDE if souch options exist.

    Why not upgrade to Windows 7, it will perform much better than XP does.
     
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