Blue screen of Death on Install

I have a machine with Windows Vista Installed.

It has an Intel X25 SSD as the System Drive

I want to reinstall (I plan to format and overwrite Vista) with XP.

When I boot up using the Dell XP CD it loads the initial drivers then i get a Blue Screen. This is quite concerning. The installed OS works ok, but its giving problems so I want to remove it.

• Should I just format the SSD and try again? Will this make any difference?
• Can I do something to avoid hitting the Blue Screen?
• Its possible I had corrupt sectors on one of the other disks, will a new XP install use the System drive or drive 0?
• Can I force the install to use a specific drive when installing?

Error:

*** STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF78D2524,0x0000034,0x00000000,0x00000000)

I never did find the answer, however

• I removed the SSD and tried to install on other disk - CRASH
• I disconnected the other disk and tried to install with only SSD plugged in - CRASH

• I removed 1 block of RAM - CRASH

• I used a windows 7 CD - NO CRASH

1. If the Dell CD is giving you a blue screen before even starting to install to HDD, then it has nothing to do with the HDD. It might be a bad CD burn or bad CD driver or something.

2. Reformatting the SDD is unlikely to help, but you can try it.

3. Instead of trying to reinstall your entire operating system when you don't understand why it is "giving a problem", why not ask your REAL question, i.e. the actual problem you're having, rather than using antiquated, unsupported software (that is, Windows XP)?