I'm trying to downgrade from Vista to XP MCE and when I boot from the CD when windows starts to setup installation at the end of the initalization of all the drivers it gives me the BSOD; this is before I format or do anything.

Any advice?

lol are we suppose to guess the bsod error?

yes, thats what nerds do.



















I figured it out by the way.

thats great, thanks for sharing, first the error then the fix, others reading this thread with the same problem sure can benefit

Did you do a full format before installation?

I think being nerds we are suppose to read minds and know the answer to that one too

only thing it somebody forgot to mention to me that I'm a nerd all this time

Being a social science major, I tend to give individuals the benefit of the doubt and just assume they're new and don't know what is needed. On the other hand, I believe that human beings as a species are generally stupid and ignorant.

For some weird reason Windows XP didn't want to work from my CD Burner that is set to master. So I had to boot the CD from my slave (my DVD Drive) and then it all worked. I did the quick format but I wish I would have done the full format to give me a better chance of getting rid of the trojans from the downloaded porn. But, Norton said he didn't find anything and I'm ok with that.

I've found that the full format is always better for a new install, for what ever reason, the quick format doesn't get rid of all the "baddies".