Windows won't install?

I'm pretty sure this is going to end up refering back to my hardware or my harddrive.

I'v reciently fixed my computer by replacing the motherboard, from the MSI to an ABIT ZAV8. I suppose these might be irrelevant to my issue, but currently I have tried installing two different versions of XP that I have. x64 bit which is a trial version, and Media Center 2005. Once windows boots into the setup and gets the hardware information it attempts to start windows then blue screens me, giving me an error "A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer." The usual error that it always loves to give =P.
It comes up with the following as well...

partmgr.sys

PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA

Gives you the crap about first time just restart, check hardware, etc etc. Everything seems fine.

Anybody know what it's refering to about the partmgr.sys and how to fix this? I troubleshooted for 2 days or so to eventually get down to replacing my motherboard

Now Windows is giving me this B.S.

Any ideas? Thanks.

Did some reasearch, apparently the page fault error has something to do with the memory. But both of my sticks of RAM are good, so I don't know if there is a setting in my BIOS messed up? I'v loaded fail-safe and gone from there but nothing seems to work :/

Go to your HDD manufacturer's web site, then download and run their diagnostic software respective to your drive...

Quantum/Maxtor - PowerMax
http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads/powermax.htm

Western Digital - Data LifeGuard Tools (DLGDiag)
http://support.wdc.com/download/

Hitachi/IBM - Drive Fitness Test (DFT)
http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm

Seagate - SeaTools
http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/

Fujitsu - Diagnostic Tool
http://www.fcpa.com/download/hard-drives/

Samsung - Disk manager
http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/utilities/

If you have the HDD listed in your sig, I'm afraid I can't make it out... the dark green font clashes terribly w/ the black background of the forum.

Thanks, going to burn the ISO and run that now. I changed the color of my sig, and yes I have a seagate. So that has helped so far.

Update:: I have tested the harddrive and it passed the test, I'm going to just go ahead and test my whole computer though this tool and see what happens because even though my HDD passed the test I still get the same error.

Update:: Did everything but a full test(did the quick test), everything passed. Even my SATA Drive but I am not using Raid0 so that is irrelevant. Getting sick of it not working :/. Any other ideas or what do these tests tell you? (Besides my HDD isn't messed up)

Run Memtest86 to check for faulty ram.

If that passes, try a different cd drive.

Although install problems are normally due to ram or hard drive.

I'll go ahead and do that... cause it's odd. Two times I have been able to get to the windows prompt where it asks to partition the drive to install on. Each time that the setup has been able to boot to that it was because I removed a stick of RAM, the thing that doesn't make any sense though is the fact that if I reboot.. It doesn't work a second time.

Ok, running Memtest right now... guess it's gotta be a stick of RAM. /sigh
23% Pass - 203 errors and counting... Any way to fix this or am I SOL and need to go bug the hell out of Corsair for their life-time warrenty?

Do you have more than one hard drive plugged into your MB?
EDIT-same time post LOL

I have my SATA plugged in, but I'm sure it's the RAM now =P

Pull one stick and see if you can install. If not pull your sata and try. (Had a install go bad last week because of a sata drive)

I have a windows installation on this drive to begin with, the reason I attempted to install was to format the drive because I was kidding "A disk drive error has occured" each time my system booted up. So now I'm guessing that's because of the bad RAM. Which I'm also starting to think both sticks are bad because neither one allows for installation or boot.

It may not necessarily be a problem with the RAM per se, but instead a problem with RAM timings / Vcore / Vdimm... or a combination thereof. Excessive or insufficient Vdimm or Vcore can cause errors in Memtest, including one or more BIOS settings related to your RAM timings.

Now that you know you have memory errors, go into the BIOS and ensure that your memory timings and voltage match the default ones for your brand and model of ram.

If it still won't pass memtest you most likely have one of the following:
a. Bad RAM
b. Bad MOBO
c. Bad PSU