hello, i have just bought an asus g50vt-x5, and it comes with Vista 64bit. the hard drive was partitioned from the factory, i am not happy with vista so i tried installing xp, i boot up from the dvd-drive, and xp does its loading thing. when it says loading windows i get a blue screen with the stop code 0x7b. i looked this up and i cant find how to fix this. i would like to duel boot xp and vista. is this possible with this error message?
no sata driver.. that's your problem. You will need to make a streamlined custom xp installer disk with the right driver. Plenty of guides found by google.. you will need this and an extracted version of the ACHI sata driver.. the vista one will do but look for an xp one. http://www.nliteos.com/ don't know anything about booting both xp and that other crap... and wouldn't try either XD
The only extra partitions that usually come with a laptop is a small recovery partition. I agree with varnull's assessment of needing a driver but wonder how many partitions and their sizes that you have. Besides...there is no support of any kind for XP with this notebook on ASUS website. It can probably be done but it will be a hell of a lot more work than just finding a SATA driver
it came with 3 partitions, the 1st is the primary partition, it is 11.72 gb, the second partition is Vista64 (C, it is 149.04GB, and the last one is 137.32gb of unallocated space. the total size is 298.09gb, according the disk management. Any ideas of what driver i need, do i need it for the dvd-drive or the hard-drive?
Hard drive. The installer couldnt find a place to install to. Riddle me this, where you gonna find audio, chipset, wireless drivers when there is no XP support for this notebook? You will pretty much need to slipstream everything you find on the vista support page (only in its XP counterpart) into the nlite you were linked to. Only there are no XP counterparts...
I'm not surprised.. the sata installers don't work even (and especially) when you boot with the drive in ide mode (can be changed in the bios) with a "system specs not suitable" .. that's why you need to extract the exe file to get the bits out of it... I posted the command a couple of weeks ago on precisely the same topic.. but why should I look and then post it again? Near enough drivers usually work, but why bother because you do have a full set of fista drivers which are known to work. A problem I can see is they will be 64 drivers and xp64 really isn't worth the effort. Google the thing.. it's an asus fista thing.. uses ACHI sata drivers.. and probably a very standard intel chipset. Look online for the stat driver or delve in your fista for them.. usually a heap of .inf and dll's if all you get is a self extracting insttaller and you want to take it apart easily... setup.exe -A -S -P C:\whatever I put xp and linux on vaio's .. easy when you get the hang of it.
