Dianne, You mention disabling the Video BIOS Shadow, but did you try
disabling the sound? If you have a sound board, remove it. Also, what
version of the XP install CD are you using? Do you have access to another XP
CD to try out? Your problem seems to be either with drivers, which would be
affected by version of XP, or with hardware. Have you tried swapping the
RAM?

Just some things for you to try.

Peter
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Hi Frank,
I am going nuts with frustration.
I went to the BIOS and disable the "System BIOS cacheable", and I disabled
the "Video Bios Shadow".  I rebooted, and reformatted the hard drive to ntfs
( the long reformat, not quick).  There was only one partition, so I used
that one.
This time it allowed me to get to approximately the same point in the setup
download before it told me:

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