xp won't install on a new system

[Melectricus]

Building a new computer. First time on a DFI nf4 ultra with a 160gb sata. Booted up posted fine used seagate tool on auto to prep the drive. Popped windows cd rom after reboot and it hung on detecting hardware. I checked everything and it looks fine. I put the seagate tools disk back in and now it won't load. windows still hangs at detecting hardware.

I was thinking it was a windows install disk but two didn't work. I tried deleting the partition and starting all over but the seagate won't load.

any suggestions? please

 

[DennyD]

Does the XP install CD have SP1 or SP2 on it? If not you're looking at the 137gb limitation that the original XP had. You also said you used a tool to prep the drive... can you delete/recreate the partitions during the XP setup and NOT use that prep CD? Many of those types of CDs can really screw up installs...
Hope it helps

 

[Melectricus]

Thanks for the reply. I spent some time researching and it appears usb sometimes doesn't play well on some boards on setup. I put adapters on the mouse and keyboard and reset cmos and all worked well.

 

[IGBT]

..I had the same prob wit a biostar M7VIF mob that was running good under w98se. Couldn't get xp setup to run..or it would give me a diag.box that said I have no HD installed. So I yanked the VIF and installed a Asus A7V8V-X and it works like a champ. May have been a KT333 issue with sp1/2..really don't know but the Asus has the KT400 chipset. Running 2 weeks now 24/7 no failures.