Hello friends and thank you for looking at my problem. I am trying to install XP PRO on a Hewlett Packard Pentium 3/750MHz/256ram/20 gig hdd machine. All goes well at the beginning when you get the message "setup is inspecting you computers configuration" I format the hard drive(ntfs) then the setup files are copied over. And at this point the machine reboots(normally to the setup screen) but on this machine it goes back to the beginning(inspecting computers configuration) again and would just keep going round in an endless circle. I have changed boot order and everything else i can think of. Please help me!! Before I go mad!!