First time to build computer - Need help

Hello, I just finished putting my computer together.  It was my first time and I think everything went pretty well.  I just finished putting Windows XP on it.  However, I have a few questions/problems still:
1) Whenever I turn the computer on it still has a screen with Platinum on it saying tab to post | del to enter bios.  Is this normal?
2) After that screen goes away, it stops loading and says "Press F1 to continue, DEL to enter SETUP" and I have to make a selection.
3) After I press F1 to continue it says Press<Ctrl+S> or F4 to enter Raid Utility, but I dont have any raid stuff.  If i leave it alone, then it enters into XP
4) After XP loads, if I try to goto my computer I get a blue screen.  It says MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION on it towards the top.  Towards the bottom it says
*** STOP: 0x00000009C (0x00000 and some more numbers).  How do I fix this.  I don't know if this helps, but I have a 200GB harddrive that was brand new, and whenever I booted with XP CD it said it only saw 131,000+ MB.  I said to format anyway, hope that didn't screw me up.
Thanks for the help.

1.  It's a normal default setting for the bios screen to show the logo.  I personally don't like it, so I turned it off.  You can access it in the "Advanced BIOS" page of the bios.
2.  Something must be in error to have the system stop booting.  The bios only stops on errors.  I wouldn't be overly concerned yet though.  Default settings on the board make it stop on all errors.  It should give you a reason why it's stopping so look at the screen when it stops and tells you to hit F1.  That should give you an idea of what needs fixing.
3.  Just turn off the RAID function.  It's in the "Integrated Peripherals" screen. 
4.  Could be any number of reasons, checking your memory would be a good first step.  As to Windows only seeing it as 131GB, that's probably because you installed with an older version of Windows XP, before SP1.  Back then it couldn't see drives bigger then around 139GB.  Install SP2 and you shouldn't have a problem.  Just make sure that your BIOS sees it as 186GB.  That's what 200GB drives usually show up as.
Michael

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    Request you to also provide the following information:
    1. Processor Type
    2. Free Hard Disk space.
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