downgrading frome vista

[dracoon]

I’m at a loss for witch forum this should be in so I’m placing it here
I bought a Compaq Presario SR2163WM PC about 2 weeks ago and it came with windows vista. I knew it had vista on it and I thought I could live with it. After dealing with vista I have come to loath it and decided to downgrade to XP. I set my computer to boot the CD-drive first put the CD in and went through all the steps to upload the OS.. Now the problems start, the CD is an upgrade disk and it asked for a me to put my windows 98, 95, ME, 2000 ect. CD in. So I put my 98 and then after that tried my 95 CD’s I have in it then asked me to put back in the XP disk and began to install. I had it do a complete format of the drive so as to get rid of everything on the pc. The problem is that now when I turn on my computer all that happens is it goes to the Compaq screen then to a black screen then restarts. Iv tried completely F-Disking the hard drive and then installing 98 but it won’t install 98 it keeps saying I don’t have enough memory. I don’t know if the new vista comps can’t be downgraded or if I have to go buy a full version of XP to do this(id like to avoid this if possible) id be extremely grateful for any help pleas.
In case it helps my comps specs are
Pentium4 631 (C) HT 3.0 GHz 800 MHz front side bus Socket 775
ATI Radeon Xpress 1100 for Intel Processors
1.512 GB DDR2 SDRAM
160 GB SATA 3G (3.0 Gb/sec) 7200 rpm
16X DVD(+/-)R/RW RAM (+/-)R DL LightScribe drive

[freakitchen]

Double Post.

http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.php?t=176624