Oddly enough all I did was unplug the front usb and the usb card reader and the other SATA drive and voila. It loaded into the "Setup is restarting" and loaded right into the GUI mode. About 5 minutes later windows was installed and running!!! Thanks so much guys!!! Didn't think it was such a little mistake that would cause this, but I learn something new every day. One issue, well not so much an issue, just an annoyance is when windows boots up it gives me an option to load Windows XP or to load USB Windows XP (not for using, just install) or something along those lines. Any way to knock off the USB one so it just auto loads into Windows XP? Again thanks guys for your help!!