yeah, both times I select s nvidia class driver, s again, nvidia nforce storage controller, then s again to make sure it's loading the driver from the floppy, in both cases it gives me antoher little prompt that says "use the driver on the floppy" after choosing those for the final time it goes on to install windows and all that, after windows installs on the boot partition it continues like xp setup normally does, asks for the number, admin pwd and all that, then goes for the reboot, boots up then gives me the startup screen "windows xp" or whatever with the annimated bar, then it reboots, then it will just reboot over and over after the xp startup screen... sometimes it will flash a blue screen really fast before rebooting. One time, using the drivers that were on the CD, moved to a floppy, f6 option, then re-installed xp and then I got a stop error 0x0000007B before it could bring up the xp startup screen... I'm going to try new sata power and data cables in a little bit. BTW, I checked the bios and it says it's the latest available from the MFG, and it apears to work correctly until windows is done isntalling. I may have to use the ata drive for the os, but that just sucks..... cause you know... it's got a raid controller and drivers, it should just work! what a pita...