First, thank you for keeping this up for so long. It is sincerely appreciated by all. You are reducing stress in the world! I have followed your detailed instructions, with no luck. I had no problems creating the nLite CD, adding the proper drivers, and getting through the format and copy-file process of installing WindowsXP. However, upon restart when I'm expecting the HD to fire up and continue the Windows install process, I'm caught in the endless re-boot loop. Prior to creating the nLite CD, I updated my BIOS, used a floppy (the f6 method) and installed WinXP that way, read about and changed various settings on my BIOS configuration relating to SATA/RAID, and verified that all cables, jumpers, etc are fine. Here are my specs: - Gigabyte mobo, GA-M61P-S3 - NVIDIA® GeForce 6100 / nForce 430 - 320GB SATA Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 - AMD Athlon 64 X2 5400+ Windsor 2.8GHz Socket AM2 Processor - Windows XP Professional (32 bit) I used drivers from: http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_nf4_wi...8.26_11.09.html The machine has only the cdrom, floppy, and one hard drive. No other peripheral cards or anything else is installed. Any ideas you might have would be wonderful. Thanks!