Windows XP install fails on new 975X Platinum board

I recently bought the following components:
MSI 957x Platinum motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo chip
Geforce 6800XT PCI Express card
Antec Case and 450W power supply
Pioneer CD/DVD ROM
Western Digital 250GB SATA drive
Corsair DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) (2 1GB)
The voltages:
+5V 5.09V
+12V 15
Memory Voltage 2.0
FSB & Memory Clock Ratio: 1:1
Current FSB clock: 266x9.0
CPU FSB freq: 266MHz
Mem clock: 533MHz
I have the SATA hard drive on SATA 1 and the CD/DVD drive as master on the secondary IDE port. The system starts and goes in BIOS, and I set the system to boot from CD-ROM first.
I copied the SATA drivers from the CD that came with the MSI board to a floppy.
The system starts the XP SP2 install process, and I hit F6 so it loads the SATA drivers.
It starts loading everything, including the SATA drivers, and it finishes the loading, and says "Starting Windows" but then it always fails with a "A problem has been detected..." error. And it just says:
STOP: 0X0000007B ( 0XF7CAE524, 0XC0000034)
I have tried various configurations in the BIOS relating to IDE and SATA, and I always get this same error.
I also just tried upping the mem voltage to 2.1, but I get the same error.
I have tried the memory, CPU, and video card in another, working computer with XP SP2 and it works fine.
This is my first MSI product.
Any ideas?
Thanks

I was just reading up on AHCI settings on the other post and saw this.
Here is an excerpt from wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AHCI
"Enabling AHCI in a system BIOS will spawn a 0x7B BSoD STOP error on installations of Windows XP where AHCI/RAID drivers for that system's chipset are not installed. Switching to AHCI requires installing new drivers before changing BIOS settings. Some later versions of Windows XP Service Pack 2 include limited AHCI/SATA support"
Sounds like you need to set your Intel SATA ports to NOT AHCI (Raid if you have a couple of drives or enhanced if you only have one). Also, do NOT load up the SATA drivers from your floppy disk.
The process you described is an attempt to use AHCI for your HDD, which btw some forum gurus
here do not recommend since it does not give any significant advantage:
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=104075.0

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