Boot up woes!!!

Hi, I've just built a new PC, previousely with an Asus motherboard which I had to send back. I now have a new MSI 875P NEO-FIS2R which I have just fitted.
My story of woes is as follows:
Fitted the MSI motherboard with a Maxtor SATA hard drive which already has windows XP pro installed from the previous build with the Asus board (which worked fine for a couple of days).
When I started up the system for the first time, the maxtor drive went up in smoke so I turned off the system. Maxtor drive is now dead, but i swapped the power supply just in case. I now have an old 5200 RPM Samsung hard drive attached to the IDE plug on the motheroboard (also with windows XP installed). The board still works thankfully, but will not boot up windows XP. I've tried swapping the boot order (tried all combinations) and tried auto detect in the BIOS. It does detect the Samsung hard drive but I get a bleep, another bleep then a screen saying "sorry for the inconvenience blah blah" and then options saying "boot in Safe mode", "start windows normall" and suchlike. Whenever I select any of them, it just goes back into POST and back to the above screen again.
I have also tried loading the drivers from the floppy disks and the CD but to no avail. I get error saying "non system disk" or "disk error".
I am now at a loss as to what to do! please help!!
Most thanks for any replies

Thanks for the replies everybody
Ok, I'm fairly new to this game having only built two PC's before! How do I go about clearing the CMOS?!!! and what is CMOS? sorry if I sound a bit stupid! I will check the connections again (going to re-build from the ground up anyway). I found a burn/scorch on the maxtor drive on one of the chips so its dead! will be getting a new drive next week under warranty.
Thanks again everyone!

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With a Mac Pro, and with a new OS... I would have advised to create your Windows partition on another disk drive and not on your boot drive.
I would also then pull either or both OS X drives (assuming you kept Tiger on another drive somewhere).
Microsoft would like to see customers move to the NTFS, it is a better file system, use FAT for when you need to share files, or use MacDrive7 even. Took heed not to use NTFS? don't understand. I have to use it of course (Vista) and I have one small 100GB FAT volume. Now most of my files are on NTFS (readable from OS X side if needed).
Did Windows update or never got that far (there should be a lot of updates, patches, etc) and at some point you would need your Leo DVD to install the Apple BootCamp patches, drivers, and services.
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http://benanderson.homeip.net/uploads/phpG9ptPf.jpg
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Can you provide details on how each these displays are connected?
From iMac (27-inch, Mid 2011) - Technical Specifications, you have two TB ports, which can support DP connections.
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Update . . . .
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G5 boot woes

My G5 1.8 has frequent boot problems. Occasionally it starts fine, but mostly does one of the following:
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Sometimes you might have to disconnect a really messed up drive to get it to boot, other times it can be the optical drive that's upsetting the cart, which would really leave you in a pickle.
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Windows 7 RC on Mac Pro boot camp (early 2008). Smooth Sailing!

Installed win 7 (build 7100) last night. OMG. Only one minor issue (see below)*. Absolutely effortless and wow! so much better than xp. Thanks to the folks on this thread here for some pointers.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9427806&#9427806
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Adobe Master collection and Office Enterprise loaded with no hickups
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PROCESS:
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Double checked firmware on Mac
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uhhh.... nothing to say folks. It simply installed, period. MUCH faster than xp too.
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Intalled these three drivers only from leopared disk (ATI, Realtek (fixed the audio), and apple keyboard. (just double click them, they're exe's.)
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Knock on wood fellas! ladies!
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Ah, the joy of working with computers...:( Apparently, from my woes with the same problem, the Apple Keyboard Manager is rightfully entered into the Run directory in the Windows registry at HKLM/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version/Run.
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