If a BIOS version is found to have a bug, Dell does not normally "pull" it ... they usually issue an A08 to fix it. Your blue screen is related to your storage driver.  XP cannot access SATA drives, so you need to load the driver for the SATA controller:[URL] XP can only obtain these drivers via floppy disk at the F6 prompt during Windows Setup, so unless you have a USB floppy drive and floppy, you will need to use nLiteOS.com to integrate the driver into your installation media.  This will create a new CD from which to install XP. Keep in mind that not all modern hardware is compatible with XP - XP is not a modern OS and you may have difficulty getting all your devices to work properly under XP (64-bit, no less, which was pretty unstable itself compared to 32-bit).
I'm having problems installing Windows XP Professional x64 on my N7110. I get this error: "A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer. Technical information *** STOP: 0x0000007B (0xFFFFFADF938323C0, 0xFFFFFFFFC0000034, 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000)".  Hardware Specs: i5-2430M 4GB RAM 640GB HDD GeForce GT 525M BIOS A07  I thought it was a BIOS bug so I went to download the latest BIOS and to my surprise, it was version A06. Does that mean that A07 was buggy and Dell reverted to A06? I also found this page [URL] that says that N7110 BIOS A05 and A06 have a lot of ACPI bugs but N5110 has none. Maybe this is related to my problem? Thanks in advance
Can't install Windows XP Professional x64 on Inspiron N7110