Boot camp won't install xp (bank screen)

Pleas can you help me. I've got a new 2.8 quad mac pro with a mac 17" display.
When I use boot camp assistant, I can partition the disk (20G). When I put my xp sp2 disk in to load windows my computer does restart, I can here the disk working but I have a blank screen. Could it be something to do with my mac 17' display? Please can you someone help me

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When you restart the computer (with Windows CD in the drive) Press and Hold the OPTION key until you see boot options. Choose the Boot From CD and see if the installation continues.
Please click [HERE|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1424348&tstart=60] for more discussion on this topic.

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There should be a selection screen, and try #2. I think that is called EFI Boot. I can't, because of EFI32 1.1, and 64-bit Windows and Apple are looking for UEFI 2.x / EFI64.
I had Windows Vista, and installed Windows 7 to another hard drive partition with the DVD written to disk (8GB) on another partition. Install off hard drive was fast, and never even boot from DVD.
For people with trouble with the boot selection:
http://sergiomcfly.blogspot.com/2008/04/select-cd-rom-boot-type-when-installing. html
I tried to put together a 'journal/faq' of my own experience with 7100, which isn't perfect but has some tips and links.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1866970&tstart=0
About GPT -
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/GPT-on-x64.mspx
If you really get stuck on the boot selector, this may help:
http://jowie.com/blog/post/2008/02/24/Select-CD-ROM-Boot-Type-prompt-while-tryin g-to-boot-from-Vista-x64-DVD-burnt-from-iso-file.aspx
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Kappy wrote:
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