New-Bee Help! XP Wont Install w/New Components!

[mrpman]

Ok, First I would like to say hello to all as I am new to this forum. Second I believe in forums as a great tool for communications and thank all responders in advance.

Now for the Dirt.....

I decided to build a new PC with new components to replace my old one.

New Components

Intel E4300 CPU

Gigabyte 965-DS3 Rev 3.3 MB

Gigabyte 8600GTS Video Card

Seagate Serial ATA HD Barracuda 7200 400g

G.Skill 2GB Memory F2-6400CL4D-2GBPK

OCZ 700W Pwr Supply

Windows XP Home 2002 CD OEM

I have tried using the Windows CD as Is, But XP would Only Recognize 131GB of My Hard Drive. Then I Tried Slipstreaming manually and using nlite to get SP2 into my windows install disc. I have about 10+ coasters now.....

The nlite slipstream with SP2 got me further but when windows is loading all of the drivers for installation I get the blue screen of death saying that there was a problem and windows was shutting down...this was not even further than the original disc..

OK, I also tried adding drivers for the Gigabyte MB with the same result.

Should I be trying to slipstream even the video drivers along with the motherboard drivers or has anyone installed XP on this MB with SATA and got it to work?

I know My XP disc is old (2002), but is spending $100 for a newer disc going to help or does XP not support newer hardware? (or shouuld I continue to keep trying slipstream)???

[nitroshift]

Is your SATA controller set in BIOS as IDE or native SATA?

[mrpman]

Nitroshift, Thanks For the reply.

I checked the bios setting for SATA and it was on "Legacy IDE Mode" so I switched it to "Native IDE Mode".

Windows Installation gets a little further, but now it cant find "cpqarray.sys"n and asks to restart.

I have to find out what cpqarray.sys is.

[Ponch]

Are you starting all the process with an XP made by Compaq ?

[mrpman]

Nothing is made by compac, these are all new components listed in my original post.

[nitroshift]

I'm thinking of a corrupt media or defective optical reader.