Windows XP repair installation hangs after re-boot

[Injury]

I had to pick up a new mobo today as my old one crapped out on me... I attempted to just hook it up and hope XP can recognize it right away... no such luck. Computer restarts right as it loads Windows.

Okay, I didn't think it would work, but would have been great if it did.

So I pop in the windows XP disk and attempt to repair the installation of XP...

it goes through just fine. It reaches the point where it must restart, and it does, just fine.

It gets back into the installation, accesses the CD-ROM drive for a few seconds, then does nothing more. It doesn't tell me it needs something else, no info, just hanging at "Installing Windows" "Time until setup completes: 39 minutes" forever.

I've tried 3 times, on the third time it's been running for an hour. Still nothing.

It WAS SP2 with latest updates before I had to repair it... but now.. well... it's nothing.

 

[mechBgon]

Full specs would help here.

 

[Injury]

Athlon XP 2000+
Asus A7N8X mobo
2 x 512MB PC 2700
1 Lite-On CD-RW
1 Pioner DVD +-RW
1 WD 40GB HD (system drive)
1 Maxtor 120 GB HD
BFG GeForceFX 5600 256MB video card
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card


I was out the door on my way to work and after about 2 hours I FINALLY got an error message... I didn't have time to write down exactly what it said (will do so when I get home) but it gave me a fatal error popup, and the log said that it could not remove certain files (I remember a SP1.cab and SP2.cab, among others)

 

[Injury]

here are the key words and names of the error log it gave me:


setup had problems registering the following OLE control DLL:

inipkl.dll

Warning:

Setup failed to remove the product catalog

SP1.cat
SP2.cat
DXBDA.cat
DXXP.cat
wmplayer.cat
dxxp.cat
wmexpack.cat

Error:

The signature for Windows XP Professional Upgrade is invalid. The error code is 426. The service has not been started.

Fatal Error:

Setup failed to install the product catalogs. This is a fatal error. The setup log files should contain more information.

 

[Injury]

OOOOOKKKAAAAAYYY....

I've at least gotten past that point...

The initial problem with the repair is that XP could not go back from Service Pack 2 from a regular XP install disk.

So I spent the last hour and a half making a service pack 2 slipstream CD and it seems to be progressing now.

Hopefully it will finish and I won't lose anything.

*crosses fingers*


EDIT:


SIGHHHH

Installed seemingly fine. Gets a blue screen when going into windows.... pretty much how it did in the first place.