Downgrade trouble with Satellite A100, please help

Hi everyone,

Since lat week that I decided to downgrade my Satellite A100-AV9 from
vista to XP using original XP media of another model of Satellite A100 I
used to have, I've been having a nightmare.

I tried a clean install via both options the CD offered: Recover to out
of box state" and erasing hard drive first and installing XP using "out
of box" option. What happens is that as soon as XP boots up, for a sec
the Windows XP screen shows up but suddenly crashes and after a brief
blue screen a message says that the Window failed to boot up and waits
for me to whether restart or go to safe mode, and no matter what I chose
it crashes again.
So I use a genuine software from Toshiba intended for an A100 to
downgrade another A100 and it bitterly fails, so what's going on?
please help!


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> Hi everyone,
>
> Since lat week that I decided to downgrade my Satellite A100-AV9 from
> vista to XP using original XP media of another model of Satellite A100 I
> used to have, I've been having a nightmare.
>
> I tried a clean install via both options the CD offered: Recover to out
> of box state" and erasing hard drive first and installing XP using "out
> of box" option. What happens is that as soon as XP boots up, for a sec
> the Windows XP screen shows up but suddenly crashes and after a brief
> blue screen a message says that the Window failed to boot up and waits
> for me to whether restart or go to safe mode, and no matter what I chose
> it crashes again.
> So I use a genuine software from Toshiba intended for an A100 to
> downgrade another A100 and it bitterly fails, so what's going on?
> please help!
>
>
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Boot off the Vista DVD and run memory test or download Memtest 86+ ISO and
burn the ISO image to create a bootable CD.

Try running a diagnostic on the hard drive, but I think it maybe a problem
with your RAM.

 

You're downgrading 3 weeks before Windows7?
Check your logic.

 

"Hashpatung" <Hashpatung.3z5mfb@DoNotSpam.com> wrote in message
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> Hi everyone,
>
> Since lat week that I decided to downgrade my Satellite A100-AV9 from
> vista to XP using original XP media of another model of Satellite A100 I
> used to have, I've been having a nightmare.
>
> I tried a clean install via both options the CD offered: Recover to out
> of box state" and erasing hard drive first and installing XP using "out
> of box" option. What happens is that as soon as XP boots up, for a sec
> the Windows XP screen shows up but suddenly crashes and after a brief
> blue screen a message says that the Window failed to boot up and waits
> for me to whether restart or go to safe mode, and no matter what I chose
> it crashes again.
> So I use a genuine software from Toshiba intended for an A100 to
> downgrade another A100 and it bitterly fails, so what's going on?
> please help!
>
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Are they different MODELS of A100? Is the original media a Recovery CD
rather than a proper Windows XP CD, and if so, it may very well be BIOS
locked to the original A100...
If what you have is a recovery disk, try borrowing an ordinary XP CD and see
if that works...

PS - this is obviously not a Vista problem so I've crossposted to an XP
group to help you....

 

Hashpatung wrote:
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>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Since lat week that I decided to downgrade my Satellite A100-AV9 from
> vista to XP using original XP media of another model of Satellite A100 I
> used to have, I've been having a nightmare.
>
> I tried a clean install via both options the CD offered: Recover to out
> of box state" and erasing hard drive first and installing XP using "out
> of box" option. What happens is that as soon as XP boots up, for a sec
> the Windows XP screen shows up but suddenly crashes and after a brief
> blue screen a message says that the Window failed to boot up and waits
> for me to whether restart or go to safe mode, and no matter what I chose
> it crashes again.
> So I use a genuine software from Toshiba intended for an A100 to
> downgrade another A100 and it bitterly fails, so what's going on?
> please help!<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

It was a creative idea that you had but unfortunately it did not work. The
recovery disc you used, while it may be for one model of Satellite, is not
correct for *this* Satellite. Get the correct XP recovery media from Toshiba
or restore your computer to the factory condition it came with (Vista).

Malke
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Re: Downgrade trouble on Satellite A100, please help!


Many thanks everyone for useful hints.

To respond to the "logic" comment, I gotta say I have lost confidence
on MS particularly when it makes a huge hue and cry about something.
This is actually how I easily gave up on my nice Satellite running on XP
to my brother-in-law and got vista stuck up my ass. So, I'd rather get
back to a well examined and approved Windows than a boasted yet to
thoroughly understand one. I've read around and noticed that XP in a
number of ways is still running better than 7, specially on older
machine like mine: to give a sense: it is a 3 years old machine with
1.66 GHz clock time, have one the first core 2 processors that came out.
Its 2 GB RAM and 200 GB hard are the only rather acceptable features!

Matter of fact, elaborating more about my distrusting MS, I actually
tried and quite loved ubuntu but unfortunately a school software was not
compatible. I imagine as soon as I defend my thesis, will most likely
get back to ubuntu (or some other linux).

I do have a recovery CD which came with a different model of A100 so
the BIOS locked comment makes a lot of sense. Will try to work it out
with a true XP.


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Re: Downgrade trouble on Satellite A100, please help!

Hashpatung wrote:
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>
> Many thanks everyone for useful hints.
>
> To respond to the "logic" comment, I gotta say I have lost confidence
> on MS particularly when it makes a huge hue and cry about something.
> This is actually how I easily gave up on my nice Satellite running on XP
> to my brother-in-law and got vista stuck up my ass. So, I'd rather get
> back to a well examined and approved Windows than a boasted yet to
> thoroughly understand one. I've read around and noticed that XP in a
> number of ways is still running better than 7, specially on older
> machine like mine: to give a sense: it is a 3 years old machine with
> 1.66 GHz clock time, have one the first core 2 processors that came out.
> Its 2 GB RAM and 200 GB hard are the only rather acceptable features!
>
> Matter of fact, elaborating more about my distrusting MS, I actually
> tried and quite loved ubuntu but unfortunately a school software was not
> compatible. I imagine as soon as I defend my thesis, will most likely
> get back to ubuntu (or some other linux).
>
> I do have a recovery CD which came with a different model of A100 so
> the BIOS locked comment makes a lot of sense. Will try to work it out
> with a true XP.<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

I don't recall making any comments about XP vs. Vista. I thought I was just
responding to your question. Further on replacing Vista with XP:

On an OEM (HP, Sony, etc.) computer:

1. Go to the OEM's website and look for XP drivers for your specific model
computer. If there are no XP drivers, then you can't install XP. End of
story. If there are drivers, download them and store on a CD-R or USB
thumbdrive; you'll need them after you install XP.

2. Check with the OEM - either from their tech support website or by calling
them - to see if you will void your warranty if you do this. If you will
void the warranty, you make the decision.

3. If the OEM does support XP on the machine, call them and see if you can
have downgrade rights and have them send you an XP restore disk. This will
be far the easiest and best way of getting XP on the machine.

4. If XP is supported on the machine but the OEM doesn't have an XP restore
disk for you, understand that you'll need to purchase a retail copy of XP
from your favorite online or brick/mortar store.

5. Also understand that you will need to do a clean install of XP so if you
have any data you want, back it up first.

6. If none of the above is applicable to you because you can't run XP on
that machine (see Item #1 above), return the computer and purchase one
running XP instead.

- Clean Install How-To
- What
you will need on-hand

Malke
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