Windows XP Setup Restarting

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I recently bought a bare-bones system. While trying to install Windows
XP Home Edition (Service Pack 1) from my OEM cd (from a previous and
now defunct computer), I am encountering a problem. Windows setup
starts fine, but when it reaches the first restart, the computer
restarts, and so does Setup! It does not "continue," but restarts
entirely from the beginning, then tells me a previous Windows
installation exists on my hard drive (the one it just began to
install). It has done this at least ten times, and I am out of tweaking
ideas. I cannot contact the company tech support until Monday, so I
thought I'd try here in the meantime. Here are my computer specs:

All these are brand new:
Pentium 4 3.4GHz processor with Hyperthreading
Gigabyte 8I915P Duo Pro motherboard
600w PSU
Ati Radeon X800 XL pci-express video card
Seagate Barracuda 160GB SATA hard drive

These are used (from my old computer):
512MB PC2700 Kingston DDR ram
Generic CD-RW drive

I know that it is not the cd since I used it to install a temporary
emergency Windows XP when my old computer's hard drive died, and it
installed fine then. I have tried changing the boot order from cd-rom
first to hard drive first and that didn't work. I let Setup partition
and format my hard drive (I had let the seagate utility do it earlier),
switched between NTFS and FAT32 (it is NTFS right now), and lots of
other changes in the BIOS (including fail-safe default, under which it
still failed).

If you need more information, please ask. I am open to any ideas at
this point. Thank you!


--
luresrme
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