You're welcome, sorry that you are having hardware troubles too.. Intermitten problems while booting can also be the power supply so it's usually swapped "first" just incase, atleast trying another one in it's place to eliminate it as a possibility.
The next bit of info isn't really related to your issue but I was thinking of a situation that gives endless re-boots; it is only related to the motherboard chipset drivers; and only durring windows installation. The chipset drivers were being replaced due to windows thinking that the chipset drivers are "un-trusted" unsinged etc.. This happens after installing and rebooting for the first time after the instal; xp reboots over and over...
I've only had luck avoiding that issue by using a custom xp slipstreamed disc that replaced the windows cab "trusted" drivers on the instal CD with the latest chipset drivers for my board, so windows cannot replace the drivers durring instal, or durring the reboot. You might want to keep that info in mind if you are doing a new instal and run into more reboots after loading your chipset drivers..
