After Installing a new Motherboard, computer freezes after motherboard screen?

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Hi, recently I had installed a new motherboard into my older computer due to it failing. The new motherboard I bought was used and previously working according to the person who sold it. It's a LGA775 DG31PR, and I bought the sufficient DDR2 RAM with it.
Now, whenever I turn it on, it boots up the Intel motherboard screen with the options to go to bios, which does indeed read all my hardware components such as my HDD, CD/DVD drives, CPU, RAM, etc correctly. After I get through the BIOS screen/intel screen, there's simply a blank screen with an underscore mark that goes down 3 rows before it completely disappears, and essentially is "frozen" on that black screen.
I have tried resetting the BIOS (since it has a previous password from the previous user) and the CMOS, and still the same thing occurs. I also tried to attempt to re-install the OS (which is XP Profession) via a CD, but after it tell me to "enter any key to boot from CD", it simply frroze with that text on the screen.

Right now I feel out of options, everything else seems to run fine. I assumed it was my HDD but since the BIOS screens reads it fine, it should be fine for the most part, right?
 
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Anyway to force CD boot in BIOS, rather than trying to boot to CD via the press key to continue method? Try a bootable Linux-Live Ubuntu disc OS to run of the CD to see if it's a hardware issue. Also, have you tried using onboard VGA connection vs videocard. Maybe some odd video issue with basic drivers beyond just the BIOS screen.
 
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When you cleared the CMOS, did you just move the jumper(if the board uses one), or remove the battery itself? Maybe try running 1 stick of RAM, moving it around the slots. Even though it's being detected during POST and in the BIOS, maybe some kind of hardware conflict further in the boot process. Also, unplug any unnecessary USB devices and see if you can properly boot that way. Also, try updating BIOS, as this particular board can apparently have some POST hang issues certain PS/2 and USB connections.
 
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I did try to reset the CMOS via taking out the battery for 15 minutes. I also moved the jumper cable to reset the password before, but those did not help.

I took your suggestion to do 3 things:
1)Remove all external USB devices.
2)Remove a RAM stick.
3)Remove a front i/o panel USB port (which this port is from a sony Vaio PC so it has some weird 16-pins instead of the normal 10-pins)

With these done, it booted up to the start screen with windows xp logo, but after starting it just rebotted over and over again, even as I moved the RAM stick around and placed both in again. I also placed my USB keyboard in and same thing.

Right now I'm going to format my HDD and reinstall the OS on it.
Any suggestions to what might have happened, though?

UPDATE (01/31/15):
So when it tried to install up to the portion where it asks for "Next" during the OS installation, my mouse AND keyboard both are off despite if I try to plug it back in and out of their USB ports. IDk why, for some reason they both turn off and it seems like the screen just froze or something. I'm unsure what to do at this part, i looked around for people who say to use a recovery CD but I don't have that.
 
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Is there an option in the BIOS for USB Support somewhere. I'm thinking your losing the keyboard/mouse during install because of the drivers not being completely installed yet from installation. Some motherboards have a setting to fix this behavior in the BIOS, otherwise you may need a PS/2 keyboard until Windows is reinstalled. Some more google searches say your motherboard can exhibit problems with USB outside of Windows.
 
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Well the USB Keyboard definitly works before since I am able to go to BIOS. The option for booting USB devices is enabled and was enabled already.
I have tried a PS/2 keyboard when the USB one failed, but still there's no response, perhaps a mouse is needed but I don't have a PS/2 mouse at the moment.
I've noticed that when the XP OS is "installing devices", that's when the USB keyboard and mouse fail to work. I'm unsure why.

UPDATE (02/01/15):
So I had re-installed the OS and drivers onto the HDD WHILE the Keyboard and Mouse were plugged in. I successfully got through the installation section and now it works fine. :) I wonder if I can install a Core 2 Duo E8500 on it...
 
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Actually I might have blown up the CPU due to forgetting to put in the 4-pin power from the psu to the mobo, something blew up which is why i got the new motheboard and all.

Although, I did order a Core 2 duo E8400, and for some reason it's not posting. Could there be a reason it's not posting, it worked fine with my Pentium 4 3GHZ, but just switching to Core 2 Duo E8400 doesn't post anything to the screen. Would I have to update BIOS or something with the Pentium 4?
 
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For some reasons, windows XP can't connec to internet even if I bridged my connection from my main computer to the older one. I would install a driver but the last time I did it I had some weird real-tek thing that couldn't allow me to go on the OS until I disabled it, is there any other driver that could work?
I also tried by downlaoding it via USB on my main computer and put it to the older one but still, when i try to start the application it gives me an unspecified error.
 
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If you click the link I posted above, the page it takes you to has another link to the "download drivers and software" for your specific motherboard. http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/highlights/dsktpboards/dg31pr Once on the downloads page, your going to want the LAN Realtek drivers for XP. These will be your ethernet drivers for connecting to the internet. You're also going to want to grab the Intel Chipset Device Drivers, Realtek Audio drivers, Intel graphics media accelerator if you plan on using onboard video at some point, and of course the latest BIOS update. Once you download these, put them on a USB drive, and copy them onto your old computer. You should be able at this point to install everything to get the board up and running. I typically install Chipset drivers first myself. I'm not quite sure what you mean about the realtek not allowing you to go into OS, any further details? I would think getting the drivers from Intel's site for your board should get you going.
 
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