XP error!

[northZephyr]

I just installed a fresh XP pro on my newly built PC.
Everything went fine, I used one partition for XP and I formatted the other partition for my data.
Then right when I try to install zonealarm firewall, my desktop crashes, a quick blue screen flash then XP restarts.
When it re-login, it stays only a few second on the desktop, blue screen flash again and retarts.... so on and so on.

Then I try to enter safe mode, but now the XP logo loading just stop appearing, even when I restart, the screen stays black...
I tried inserting XP cd to repair but the rom doesn't even read it!!

what's happening ?
seems like everything stopped working...

Now I can't even reinstall XP cause the rom stopped reading.

In the BIOS settings, everything looks fine, the computer recognize the HD and DVD rom/..

help ?

 

[jdw2]

In the BIOS you said it recognizes the DVD rom...but is it set to boot from it before the HDD?

Also, post the stop code from the blue screen. Sometimes it can help tell you where the error is coming from.

Either way, before you restore you might want to run a Memtest and a hard drive diagnostic utility to make sure they check out ok.