I was wondering if I get some advice from you regarding a new pc that I have built containing the following parts.

Gigabyte Pentium 4 Titan Series GA-8IG1000 Series
Maxtor Serial ATA Harddrive 200 GB
DVD ROM
DVD RW
256 MB DDR400 RAM
P4 3.01 processor
Sound Blaster 6.1 Soundcard

I bulit the system. Then I powered the system up and it works fine, it dected all hardware no problem, but when it comes to installing a XP or 2000 Server, it start going through the install process, and at a certain point in install the CD stop spinning and the nothing happens after that.

I have tryed it with out any PCI card like the soundcard but the same thing happens. The hard drive has be formatted.

I wondering if it could be any of the following.

The RAM
The Serial ATA hard drive

Any Suggetion,

Thanks

GZA

Welcome to Techspot !

Did you get to F6 and install drivers for the SATA?
How did you format the drive?
You may have to try copying the Winows disk to a partition on the drive and run set up from there.
can you describe when the install stops, and is it the same spot?