Help with getting rid of Vista?!

[AntonG1]

Hello all. I've run into of a bit of a problem and i was wondering if anyone can help me out?

Okay here's the problem. I've had my laptop almost a year now and Vista is driving me crazy. I want to downgrade back to Windows XP Professional. After inserting the xp disc, when Windows has finished loading the files i get a blue screen. It's always there and i can't seem to get around it. It's really frustrating. My laptop is a Sony Vaio VGN FW31e 4gigs of RAM Vista Home Premium pre-installed. Also a 400HDD.

Am waiting for your kind rep.

Thanks.

 

[Drenlin]

You really find vista more annoying than XP?

It sounds like you might have a scratch (or some other type of bad spot) on your install disc.

 

[The_Other_One]

Exactly when does it blue screen? If it's after the first "run" of the Windows install, that usually means a drive issue with SATA. If you had to load the SATA/RAID driver, try checking your BIOS to see if there's an option for IDE emulation. If not, try looking for other SATA drivers.

 

[AntonG1]

Sorry for the late rep, everything is fine now i've upgraded to windows 7 home premium everything is back to normal apart from one thing. I can't access my camera on my laptop. There's an "AV Mode" button at the top near key board but it's disabled when i press it and a friend told me that i don't some sort of software install, can anyone help me?

 

[camel lips]

Sorry for the late rep, everything is fine now i've upgraded to windows 7 home premium everything is back to normal apart from one thing. I can't access my camera on my laptop. There's an "AV Mode" button at the top near key board but it's disabled when i press it and a friend told me that i don't some sort of software install, can anyone help me?

go to start right click my computer,manage,device manager and update anything with yellow