I recentely purchased an MSI MS-6738 Motherboard to upgrade a system. I Installed all components 80GB ATA100 hard drive, Hercules Prophet 4000XT video card, CDRW and floppy. Because the hard drive is also new I immedeatly started to install XP Pro from the CD. The problem is that the intallation will hang at different parts of the install. It will at least get to the Starting Windows line, sometimes it will get a screen or two after that, but it will always hang at some point. It is a hard hang in that you must hard reeboot to get out of it. I have tried the following 1. Dumping CMOS and starting from scratch 2. Using one stick of 128MB PC133 memory 3. Installing a hard drive with a known working windows XP Pro 4. Flasing the BIOS with the latest from MSI web site 5. Using a different known working video card. 6. With a hard drive with a woking windows install I ran it though a safe mode load and it hun on loading MUP.sys I can't get to the recovery console to try disabling MUP.sys because it always will hang before it gets to that point. Any Ideas of what is going on and what I can do to get this running will be greatly appreciated.

Try looking over this article here: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310760