Help with OS install

[nascar820]

Ordered all the parts for my tower. Got everything together. Fired it up, it went through
Post with one beep and came up to the BIOS screen. All fans lights etc are working fine.
Bios recognized all drives. CPU temps running in the 44 to 46 degrees C range Heat sink is not
hot to touch. The problem is when I go to install Windows XP Pro., the files all load and I get to the Welcome to setup screen and after I press enter it just sits there

[ktkendall]

We'll probably need some specs to help you out a bit. Can u give hardware specs? Are you going to load onto a sata harddrive, and if so did you do the F6 thing and load the sata drivers?

[nascar820]

Appevia xplorer case
asus p5nn32-e sli mobo
intel e6600 core 2 duo processor
seagate 7200.1 500g hd
seagate 7200.1 250g hd
lite on cd/dvd combo
lite on dvd multilayer burner w lightscribe
nvidia 8800gts vid. card
thermaltake 750w toughpower psu
no floppy drive

[newbuilder14]

I don't see your memory listed there. Memory causes freezing, however usually not that late in setup. Could very well be your hard drives... they are not hooked up in a RAID or anything are they?

[nascar820]

memory is 2g crucial ballistix. it is also showing up in bios as being present
i did not receive any discs or anything with the hard drives so i went to seagates
website and downloaded an iso image which i burned to disc then i went in and set up both
hard drives and im still having the same problems

[nascar820]

no my hard drives are not hooked up in any raid setup. raid is currently disabled in bios

[nascar820]

I used a usb floppy drive to make a disc containing the drivers for the sata. I then booted xp off of cd rom, pressed f6 then loaded drivers off of the floppy. It then preceded to ask me where I wanted to put the os. I chose my partition then it came up with a screen saying to insert nvidia raid driver disk into a: then press enter. i pressed enter and nothing happened. am I going to have to put a floppy drive in this to get the os loaded.

[glc]

Try installing Windows with only one hard drive and one optical drive connected - and NO peripherals or USB devices except a keyboard and mouse - and possibly the USB floppy.

[nascar820]

I was finally able to get the OS installed. I unhooked one of the hard drives and one of the optical drives tried it and got the same thing. Finally, I took a floppy drive out of another computer I have and temped it in just long enough to get the OS installed. Thanks to everyone for their input.