BSOD trying to install windows xp on pavillion dv6

[Paul_Tikkanen]

The graphics driver will come later.

The blue screen is because XP doesn't have the storage controller drivers in its installation driver database.

If you have a USB FDD, you can put those drivers on a FDD and add them at the F6 prompt, but you have to select the exact driver from the list.

[DLeeS]

no fdd...only usb, etc. If I had one, I wouldn't have floppy disks anyway, so slipstreaming it is I guess...

[DLeeS]

Starting over today...and I realized that there is a significant step missing in all the slipstreaming instructions I've read to this point...and I kind of knew it, becuase I already know that an .inf file is not an actual driver file, it just points to it...so I always in the back of my mind wondered how it could work...and after reading this instruction, I get it...you have to copy a whole driver FOLDER first to the new setup folder...otherwise, you don't get the .sys driver files. Duh...No video, but pretty thorough instruction here for anyone else trying this. (I'll let you know if I have luck today or not) 

https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/72185-sata-drivers-slipstream-into-windows-xp-cd.html

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Yes, you have to slipstream the entire folder I attached yesterday.

I've made a couple of disks using that method.

I find it easier and more fun to just install the specific sata driver I need for the chipset the notebook has, using a USB FDD.

[DLeeS]

Did not work. Sorry. So still trying. I was even wondering if RAM could have anything to do with it, because another article I read said he'd seen it before, and I did do a RAM upgrade years ago, to 16G DDR3-1333 So I took 1 out, it didn't work either.