GIGABYTE motherboard GA-M61PME-S2P issues

many couse can do it. if it is possible set up a fresh os

Yes. Bios is configured correctly. I've been told that XP does not like to switch mother boards or processors. Need a work around that does not involve loading a new OS

I just bought a new gigabyte GA-M61PME-S2P MOTHER BOARD AND amd sempron 1250 2.2ghz CPU combo from FRY'S. I also bought a brand new case with a 380 watt ps, 4 gbytes of 800mhz ddr2 ram. I put everything together, plain and clear with no problems, connected all the propper connections etc. I have built many systems from scratch before, so I am no novice. However, the system will power up, I can go into the CMOS with no problems, I can boot to a win98 floppy and browse a cdrom/dvd with no problems from DOS. It boots up into the winxp setup program, asks me if I want to proceed to install windows xp, and when I hit enter, it instantly reboots and goes thru the same cycle again.

I tried it first with an old 80 gig hd with win98 system on it, soon as it started trying to boot off the hard drive it rebooted, I tried it with a blank fresh fdisk'ed hard drive, it rebooted at the same moment, I tried it with my known good 300gig hd from my other system, same reboot, everytime it starts in to try booting, it reboots. Any ideas?

Thanks;
Ice

I Believe somebody else in another forum was having the same problem when they tried to install XP. They fixed it by using a hard drive that already had windows installed for a different computer. Then he Flashed the BIOS and didn't have any more problems with it. I believe this motherboard has had 2 BIOS updates since it came out.

As for the first problem.....Have you tried loading the Fail-safe settings in the BIOS?

Umm, I think you're correct.