Cant Get Past Windows XP Licensing Agreement Screen

[Guest]

I built a brand new computer and whenever I try to install Windows XP Pro or even Windows 2000 Server, I cant get past the License Agreement Screen. I press F8 and nothing. I can hit ESC and the system responds like it should (ie letting me exit the install). Page Up/Down work and I can read the licensing agreement. But F8 wont do anything

Im using an AMD Athlon 64 FX-51 processor, Asus SK8V motherboard, 4 GB of Corsair XMS ECC Registered DDR PC-3200 memory (4 x 512MB), ATI Radeon 9800XT 256MB, two 160GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 Serial ATA 7200 RPM drives in a Raid 0 config (320GB) using the onboard Promise Raid controller, Lite On 8x DVD+-RW drive and a SB Audigy2 ZS sound card. Im installing XP Pro (not xp pro sp1)

I load the Promise Raid controller driver during the startup of the XP (or 2000) install). If I dont load it of course it doesnt see the drives. I even used FDISK as directed by the Asus mobo manual to make the OS see the drives at one single disk. But no matter what I do XP (or W2k) will not advance pass the License Agreement screen (F8). Ideas?

 

[Bee]

Hardware or BIOS fault
Follow this "Bare Bones Trouble shooting"
http://www.theeldergeek.com/bare_bones_troubleshooting_installation.htm
Likewise, from MS
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315223

If there is no further help from here, post to
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware

Bee
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I built a brand new computer and whenever I try to install Windows XP Pro

or even Windows 2000 Server, I cant get past the License Agreement Screen.
I press F8 and nothing. I can hit ESC and the system responds like it
should (ie letting me exit the install). Page Up/Down work and I can read
the licensing agreement. But F8 wont do anything.

Im using an AMD Athlon 64 FX-51 processor, Asus SK8V motherboard, 4 GB of

Corsair XMS ECC Registered DDR PC-3200 memory (4 x 512MB), ATI Radeon 9800XT
256MB, two 160GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 Serial ATA 7200 RPM drives in a
Raid 0 config (320GB) using the onboard Promise Raid controller, Lite On 8x
DVD+-RW drive and a SB Audigy2 ZS sound card. Im installing XP Pro (not xp
pro sp1).

I load the Promise Raid controller driver during the startup of the XP (or

2000) install). If I dont load it of course it doesnt see the drives. I
even used FDISK as directed by the Asus mobo manual to make the OS see the
drives at one single disk. But no matter what I do XP (or W2k) will not
advance pass the License Agreement screen (F8). Ideas?