I have a supermicro, dual xeon quad core processor, motherboard. 771 chipset

4 gigs of registered, EEC ddr2 667

sata 250gig HD

sata CD rom

the installation proceeds normaly, with loading drivers and then, when it goes to

"start up windows" for the beginning of the install, it freezes on that page.

definitely not DDR2's, have switched them out already.

supermicro has no answer

any hints as to how to get past this?

using XP pro sp2 original disc.

how often do you get a bad board out of the box?

Thanks

you have posted in the x64 xp sub-forum. How often that can happen? I'd say first check statistics, but real world. 3 out of the last 10 motherboards i have had have had some problems. Then again, this all becomes relatively problematic to consider. I overclock/mod firmware/bios, tweak anything and everything out of my setup, so i say it's pretty good that 70% lasts. I reckon if it was any normal user 100% of those would be just fine.

If i were you i'd look up information concerning running windows with ECC. You also should be able to disable it i think, but really i cant tell. Havent used ECC memory since the 80's. Literally.