Satellite L305D-s5881 - Windows Xp Install

Ive been trying to install windows xp for 5 hours. Been on the phone with tech support for 4. they didnt give me any answers..
Im tired of vista. It stinks (<--- -_-). When I try to install xp get the blue screen of death (which seems to be common) but idk what I should do?
I know I can go to bios and set it to compatibility mode but Im not sure if I will get any performance decreases? ) Will I?)
I called tech support and they gave me links to SATA drivers... but the freaking SATA drivers where for Intel!!!! (Im running AMD Turion) I know theres a program called nLite that I can put the drivers into my windows install but I dont have the drivers to install. I know there are probably a billion threads like this but I couldnt find anything the pertatins to me
Ive tried to install xp home..xp pro ..sp1..sp2 and sp3
Toshiba Satellite L305d-s5881 AMD Turion 2ghz

Hello
As I can see you have an US notebook model. I have checked Toshiba US download page and as I can see there are not so many drivers for WXP available and your notebook is not fully WXP supported. So when you install WXP you will have problem to find all necessary drivers.
There is no chipset or display driver. Common drivers are missing and I really don't know what you can do about it. Of course you can try to install such drivers from European page and hope they will work properly.
Check http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com > Support & Downloads and choose Satellite L300D.
There you can find all available WXP drivers. As I wrote before I hope you can use them. I don't have experience with US models.
How to find SATA driver please check http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=167507
Bye and good luck.

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Hi drftking23,
> but now nothing works.
Wow, very detailed! :D
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Everything what you need you can download on Toshiba US page where you can find your notebook model:
http://www.csd.toshiba.com
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