install stops

[crown711]

bought a two year old 700x gateway
with no hdd's ,no floppy ,no disk drives.(cd-roms)
i have a xp pro sp2 disk ,i'm using
runs thru till it ask to agree on the licence .then i push f8 ,stops and forces me to reboot.

 

[MrChad]

How do you expect to install XP without a hard drive?

 

[crown711]

yes ,i have tried 4 different hdd's.all stop at same place on xp pro install.
thanks for ALL replies

 

[MrChad]

Check your IDE cables and your XP CD. If those are ok, test your RAM.