Dell Dimension E520 Vista to Xp ??

hi guys , first and formost thanks for the excellent site , keep up the good work
I have been given a dimension e520 Intel Core 2 6300' 1.86 GHz' 1G Ram,256 Mb ATI Radeon x1300 Pro graphics card and want to be rid of vista and install xp pro 64 , after trawling the web and reading lots of conflicting info can anyone please help ?

thanks g-paw ,will do as soon as poss , fingers crossed

Trying to do the same thing for on my mother's E520 and there appears to be some significant incompatibility. Tried many times (with different configurations) to try to load a legal copy of XP Pro onto a new hard drive in this computer and it blue screened every time. Finally gave up and installed XP on the hard drive in another computer then transplanted the drive to the new computer - now it crashes during Windows start up. The drive is fine - it's installed in this computer right now as a second drive. Help is appreciated.

As the previous poster said, disabling RAID support is the only way to get Windows XP to install or boot properly with this system. I have been trying to setup this E520 for a Vista/XP dual boot for awhile now and I can only get it to actually work properly if I disable the RAID support when not using Vista (you still need to do this even if you are using a seperate HDD for the 2nd OS). As you can imagine, enabling and disabling RAID to boot into the OS of your choice on this system adds up to being a huge pain, it's a real inconvenience for anyone considering an XP installation and I wish Dell would correct this issue.