Dell dimension 8400 inacessable boot device

[smirk24]

Doing a clean install of windows xp right before i get to the options to select the screen settings and go through the checking of the internet i get a bsod inacessable boot device before i even get a chance to see my desktop. I did a dell diagnostic on the hard drive and it passed so i dont know whats going on

[Partha]

It looks like the SATA controller mode needs to be set to IDE or the compatibility mode in BIOS if you want to install XP from scratch

[smirk24]

Xp doesnt like the raid on/ahci but i turned it to raid on/ata there was no problems thank you partha. We can close the thread

[Partha]

Cheers!