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Help - going insane with OS install

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mooseAndSquirrel

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I'm going mad! I have a new rig (Soyo Dragon +, Adaptec 29160N, Cheetah 15k drive). I can post fine and I can boot off of CD fine. However, when I try to install any OS (I've tried 2000 Pro, XP Home and XP Pro) at some point in the file copy part it hangs cold.

I have tried all of the following:
- I had 3 sticks of crucial RAM; I first reduced to 2 then 1 stick
- I had a Radeon 8500 card; I replaced with an old PCI card
- I've swapped around IDE cables
- I put an old but good 8x CD in place of the CDRW I was using

And still nothing. I have left the BIOS settings untouched. I'm going to try to install to an IDE drive instead while I wait for other suggestions on WTF could be wrong.

The furthest I got was it booted XP Pro and brought up the GUI screen and said "copying files" and it said 25 minutes left and then it locked up.

Any help greatly appreciated.
 
Might as well keep talking to myself 😉

I disconnected the SCSI card and drive and was able to complete an installation of XP, so that appears to have been the problem. BUT:

1) I am now experiencing the incredibly long boot times others have reported with the Soyo Dragon Plus. Does anybody have a recommendation.

2) I still want to make use of my fancy SCSI drive for my OS and apps and put my 2 IDE drives in a RAID 0 array. Now that I have XP installed on one of the IDE drives, what makes sense to move to the SCSI? I'm thinking: reconnect the SCSI drive and reboot XP, see if it's reocgnized. Format it and test it out; then load all of my other crap (DVD, Audigy, etc.) and load up drivers and generally spend a day testing what works and what doesn't.

Then, I'll need to move the IDE drives to IDE3 & 4, change the Jumper to RAID and change the BIOS settings to boot from SCSI and try again. But I'm new at this, so would still value any advice.

Thanks
 
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