Trouble installing OS on new build...help!

I just built a new system, specs below, and I'm having trouble getting an OS installed. I've been trying to boot from the XP home CD, but after it says it's checking the hardware the screen goes blank and nothing happens. I also tried an old windows 98 disk, but it won't get past scandisk. I've created a partition and formatted with the win98 cd.
MSI K7N2 nforce2 mobo
AMD Athlon XP Barton 2500+
512mb crucial PC2700 (2x256) running at 333mhz DDR
MSI Geforce 4 ti4400 128mb
Creative Audigy 2
Lite-On DVD-ROM
Panisonic floppy drive
Linksys network card
Antec 400W PSU

Try these in order first 1 at a time.
1st set your boot order for your cd-rom to be before your HD.
if nothing still
Set cpu FSB to 100 in bios and on the board
then put ram in slots 1@3 or 2@3 or just use 1 strip (for now)
take out all devices that do not need to be hooked up for install like SB Audigy 2, Linksys network card, just have ram, cpu, cd-rom, HD, video card.

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