Windowsxp help

[lorddjj]

I am doing a thing for my youtube and I need xp to play a few games,  however windows xp installer won't boot from DVD it wrote it at 8x,  the DVD drive is 16x but I thought slower was ok. It is a pimped version of xp by darkly it's nice I have used it in a vm befor,  however now when I try to install it on my laptop it blue screen a bit threw the process, it has 2 install modes I did try both and both bluescreens,  all I can think of is that I need to burn it at 16x 

[Lurick]

The rate at which you burn a disk is just how fast it will write the data to the disk and has nothing to do with how the DVD Reader will read the disk. So you could burn it at 1000x and it would just write the data faster and have the potential for more errors.

[lorddjj]

16 minutes ago, Lurick said:

The rate at which you burn a disk is just how fast it will write the data to the disk and has nothing to do with how the DVD Reader will read the disk. So you could burn it at 1000x and it would just write the data faster and have the potential for more errors.

ok, do you have any suggestions on the really random bluescreens ?

[Lurick]

Just now, lorddjj said:

ok, do you have any suggestions on the really random bluescreens ?

Was it a brand new disk you burned it to or did you re-use an older disk? It could possibly be a corrupted ISO or scratches on the disk caused an issue.

[lorddjj]

1 minute ago, Lurick said:

Was it a brand new disk you burned it to or did you re-use an older disk? It could possibly be a corrupted ISO or scratches on the disk caused an issue.

brand new disk i just opened a whole pack, i bought it in like 08 but it has never been croupted by heat it allways been in a house with ac at 70 f (20 ish c i think) my linux and windows vista still work but the one i burned today (the xp) isnt 

[Lurick]

1 minute ago, lorddjj said:

brand new disk i just opened a whole pack, i bought it in like 08 but it has never been croupted by heat it allways been in a house with ac at 70 f (20 ish c i think) my linux and windows vista still work but the one i burned today (the xp) isnt 

Hmmm, it's possible the ISO got corrupted when downloading it. I would try to download it again and burn to another disk and see what happens.

[lorddjj]

1 minute ago, Lurick said:

Hmmm, it's possible the ISO got corrupted when downloading it. I would try to download it again and burn to another disk and see what happens.

i used the iso in a vm just fine lastnight, 

[Lurick]

6 minutes ago, lorddjj said:

i used the iso in a vm just fine lastnight, 

Hmmm, I doubt anything is wrong with the laptop's drive since you tried other disks and they worked just fine. If you're just doing a few games on XP for YouTube why not make the VM full screen and record that way?

[lorddjj]

2 hours ago, Lurick said:

Hmmm, I doubt anything is wrong with the laptop's drive since you tried other disks and they worked just fine. If you're just doing a few games on XP for YouTube why not make the VM full screen and record that way?

i need gpu passthrew , i have been unsucessfual in using any of the vitrual machines that support the gpu passthrew there very advanced and when you throw xp into the mix it makes it very hard to actually do anything. i am using my laptop to as a test, i will mostliekyl just take the drive out of my laptop then put it in my main rig at this point. i am only a little aptitude for software side of tech 

[demonix00]

Maybe if we knew the information from the BSODs, we could come to some conclusions as to what is causing the problems instead of taking stabs in the dark about the disc and the image.

 

Also, you should remember that windows xp isn't going to work with more current processors so that might be the reason for the blue screens (it would be extremely slim since it's possible that the initial setup process wouldn't even start, but then I'm not even 100% sure if that is correct).

 

I also would expect almost any game that runs in XP should at least run in more current windows operating systems (you might not be able to capture any footage directly since I doubt that there are any capture programmes that would work with XP now, so you would need an external capture device to go from it to another computer).