I have the same motherboard and very similar system configuration but I have
not seen such problems as you have. I have had my share of problems with win
XP though. I have three hard drives install in the system and right now I
have it successfully install Win XP, Win 2000, and Win, ME. I did have a
problem with both the updated VIA 4in1 drivers and the highpoint drivers so I
used the drivers from the disk that was included with the motherboard and
they are vr. 1.3. You might think about using older drivers to install. But
when I did use newer drivers in Win XP it would not let me uninstall,
rollback, or reinstall older drivers until I formatted the order that
installed the OS was WIN ME then WIN 2000, then WIN XP due to the boot
manager included with 2000 and XP. Hope this helps.

Bradley Marden
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