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Bill and Meister, You guys are great keeping me on track. But the newest problem continues. I tried Meister's comment: >> Tip: If the "force HAL option" fails for you, abort & >> restart the install process and next time around >> *immediately* upon seeing the F6 option start...

Bill, Thanks so much for your help. I hate to press my luck, but now I have a new problem. After putting in Corsair DDR RAM, it now boots to CD and starts installation of Windows XP, but after 10 to 20 minutes it hangs. Once it hung during copying of files and the other times it got past...

bcastner, You nailed it - BAD RAM. I did the test you suggested and had many errors, so since I had 2 RAM chips, I pulled one at random and the remaining chip passed the test and worked for the installation. One question, where did you come across the 3 factors you listed: 1. Overclocking...

PS to bcastner, I did try the F5 at the F6 Add SCSI or Raid prompt and it just offered to enter Automated System Recovery (F2) which requires a floppy recovery disk I don't have (since it's a new install). If I don't hit F2, it just continues to my old error message. So, good idea but it...

To bcastner, Excellent thinking and I appreciate the ideas. I've checked the Intel site and the 2.66 GHz P 4 is not a hyperthreading model. Also, I can't find HT anywhere in the BIOS or BIOS manual for this motherboard, so I suspect that's not the problem here. The INF file is on a CD so is...

I'm building a new system and trying to install Win XP Pro for the first time. When booting the first screen shows the correct CPU (there's only one) and the other components I've installed. It proceeds to boot from the Win XP Pro CD and after a few screens shows the following error message...