Please help: Windows XP will not install PLEASE

I know this maybe answered else where but I have limited computer access at the time and ANY help will be GREATLY appreciated.
K8N Neo2 Platinum w/amd64 3500
1 gig of kingston mem
200 gb and a 60 gb Maxtor sata drives (non raid setup)
A cd burner and a dvd burner
I can post and boot to bios with no problems and everything shows up fine.
I insert Win xp pro cd and everything goes well and then all of a sudden it starts saying it can't find files on the cd while copying them onto the hard drive. I have tried several times and it always happens, sometimes different files. I have also tried an Win XP Home cd with the exact same results. The Win xp pro cd came with the SP2 on it.
I have tried many combos on my drives: installing on the 200gb, installing on the 60gb, unplugging one or the other, plugging in to sata 1/2 and sata3/4!!!! I have also reinstalled all the hardware again, checking each cable as I went along. I also reseated the cpu and cleaned thermal compound, but fresh on and hooked up fan (Zalman cnps7000a)
I HAVE NOT installed the raid drives when xp ask for the f6 thing. I don't want raid, just 2 drives.
PLEASE Any help will be greatly appreciate!!!!!
LoneStar

Hi. I just popped onto the forums to post a topic almost identical to this one, but with a few key differences - so I'd thought I'd stick it in here instead of taking up space.
Here's the gist of things -
My Dad and I recently built a PC over Christmas (well, he built, I watched and drank tea.), and it worked fine - half life 2 was downloaded and then completed. Now however, the problems have begun. (this isn't about half life 2, by the way.)
First, the specs - (I know these need more detail, such as PSU and voltages. I'll add those soon.)
MSI K8N Neo2 Nvidia nForce 3 Ultra Chipset motherboard
Athlon 64 Bit 3000+ CPU
1GB Corsair RAM
160 GB Sata Hard Drive
nVIDIA GeForec 6800 GT
Windows XP Home Edition SP2
Bios V 1.3
Plus onboard sound, floppy/7-in-1 card reader and DVD/CD RW. I'll post the motherboard specs later, I'm at work at the moment and I can't remember them.
Right, down to business - I tried to connect and install an external wireless LAN card through a USB connection (I know this card works as it was used on my old PC) and to cut a long story short, I messed it up by using the wrong drivers - and I made things worse by trying to fix it in a hurry, basically screwing up windows. So, I'd thought I'd re-format the hard drive and re-install windows. It was a new PC, there was nothing important on it, and I thought it was about time I learnt how to do a format anyway.
Now the problem - despite formatting my hard drive (and thus removing the old, bad, copy of windows) Windows XP Home will now not complete its installation.
It gets through to the third part of the installation (i.e. my computer has rebooted twice so far) where it asks you questions like "Lets set up windows together" and "Lets choose your automatic update settings". Here, (and I've tried this formatting/reinstallatino twice) the PC reboots for no reason, and the standard "Your computer has restarted due to a failure" on a black screen with white writing pops up - offering to start normally, with last known good configuration or in safe mode.
Still with me? Phew, almost there...
Now, whatever I choose, the computer reboots again and then a BLUE screen with white writing pops up saying my computer was turned off in order to stop damage occuring. Here's a summary of the writing including what I thought were the important points:-
"DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
Disable bios memory options like caching or shadowing
STOP: 0x0000000D1 (0x00FFFFE3, 0x00000002, 0x0000000, 0xF7AD24EB)
Usbochi.sys-address F7AD24EB base at F7ACF000, Datestamp 41107d6"
Also, two more important points. When my dad was putting together the PC, we made changes to the bios, AFTER windows was installed. (Although I'm at work and haven't got them with me yet - I'll post them later.) This means these changes are still present - could they be causing the problem? (And hence would resetting the CMOS help?)
Secondly, I have a SATA hard drive. I've already tried using the SATA drivers from floppy during windows installation, but when I do this the same problem occurs, even earlier - this time windows doesn't even finish copying basic setup files. It jams on "cdaudio.sys" and then crashes to the blue screen.
Any suggestions or ideas you guys have would be of great help - I'm all out of them myself!
(Also, one more point - I conducted the format by changing the bios boot setting to boot from CD, then booting from the windows CD, then deleting the partition/formating the HD/re-installion windows in this manner.)
Remember - a big shiney hug for the first person to help me back to half life 2 goodness!
Cheers,
Spurros.
EDIT - the floppy I used to install the SATA drivers had nforce 3 SATA RAID driver (G72-NVSA020) written on it.

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