OK I'm having major difficulties getting windows xp home edition installed on my new system. All the parts are installed correctly (as far as I can see), it powers up ok, I flashed to BIOS version 10014 just fine. Setup finds all of my drives. 1 WD SATA 36 GB drive that I'm trying to install the OS on. 1 WD 120 GB Special Edition. P4 2.6 ghz, 2 x 512 Meg Mushkin L2 3500 RAM.
I left the settings in the BIOS as default except disabling the promise raid controller since I'm not setting up a raid. (SATA drive is installed thru the primary SATA port) Booting up, It sees my plextor 708a dvd burner and finds the cd rom in there just fine.
The first time I tried to format the SATA drive I received an error and had to redo it. I tried installing windows xp like 5 times last night. I keep getting interrupts in the installation saying that different files were not copied correctly, sometimes I can hit enter to retry and it'll go past it, but sometimes it won't go past a specific file. It is also never the same file, it's been several different files with each installation attempt. Once or twice I got through the installation but when it reboots and the windows xp screen is coming on it goes to a blue screen giving 0x0000000a errors and IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL and junk like that.
I also tried to load it up in the EIDE drive, it seemd to go better, got all the way through the installation w/o a problem, rebooted then got a black screen on starting up that says windows had been halted because a file was missing or corrupt in the system/config file.
Anyway, it's very frustrating, this is my first home build and I'm unsure what to do next. Is it a bad Motherboard? Can anyone give me some clues on where to look or what to try next?
I left the settings in the BIOS as default except disabling the promise raid controller since I'm not setting up a raid. (SATA drive is installed thru the primary SATA port) Booting up, It sees my plextor 708a dvd burner and finds the cd rom in there just fine.
The first time I tried to format the SATA drive I received an error and had to redo it. I tried installing windows xp like 5 times last night. I keep getting interrupts in the installation saying that different files were not copied correctly, sometimes I can hit enter to retry and it'll go past it, but sometimes it won't go past a specific file. It is also never the same file, it's been several different files with each installation attempt. Once or twice I got through the installation but when it reboots and the windows xp screen is coming on it goes to a blue screen giving 0x0000000a errors and IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL and junk like that.
I also tried to load it up in the EIDE drive, it seemd to go better, got all the way through the installation w/o a problem, rebooted then got a black screen on starting up that says windows had been halted because a file was missing or corrupt in the system/config file.
Anyway, it's very frustrating, this is my first home build and I'm unsure what to do next. Is it a bad Motherboard? Can anyone give me some clues on where to look or what to try next?