Windows XP Setup Restarting

[luresrme]

I recently bought a bare-bones system. While trying to install Window
XP Home Edition (Service Pack 1) from my OEM cd (from a previous an
now defunct computer), I am encountering a problem. Windows setu
starts fine, but when it reaches the first restart, the compute
restarts, and so does Setup! It does not "continue," but restart
entirely from the beginning, then tells me a previous Window
installation exists on my hard drive (the one it just began t
install). It has done this at least ten times, and I am out of tweakin
ideas. I cannot contact the company tech support until Monday, so
thought I'd try here in the meantime. Here are my computer specs:

All these are brand new:
Pentium 4 3.4GHz processor with Hyperthreading
Gigabyte 8I915P Duo Pro motherboard
600w PSU
Ati Radeon X800 XL pci-express video card
Seagate Barracuda 160GB SATA hard drive

These are used (from my old computer):
512MB PC2700 Kingston DDR ram
Generic CD-RW drive

I know that it is not the cd since I used it to install a temporar
emergency Windows XP when my old computer's hard drive died, and i
installed fine then. I have tried changing the boot order from cd-ro
first to hard drive first and that didn't work. I let Setup partitio
and format my hard drive (I had let the seagate utility do it earlier)
switched between NTFS and FAT32 (it is NTFS right now), and lots o
other changes in the BIOS (including fail-safe default, under which i
still failed).

If you need more information, please ask. I am open to any ideas a
this point. Thank you

 

[RonK]

Are you installing the Sata Driver ?

Page 9 of your motherboard manual shows how to make a floppy with the Sata
Driver.

You need this floppy to install XP on a Sata drive. Watch the screen at the
first part of XP Install and hit F6 when prompted and have the floppy in the
drive.