Haven't tried the memory thing yet, but last night, by some miracle of god, I actually got XP installed. I tried formatting the hard drive once again, started the install, and it made it all the way through. After that I booted up, got online, checked windows updates... Installed Service pack one... Restarted like instructed... Now when I restart, it's on for like 5 minutes and then it restarts all by itself. Frustrating. But fun at the same time, I suppose. No error message this time, no flickering of the screen, just blackness then POST. Fun fun fun. Gonna try that memory thing though, if that doesn't work, any new ideas witht he new symptoms I gave ya? BTW, thanks for the help and quick replies! Oh yeah, also, only one stick of memory. Does it matter which slot the memory goes in? I've got it in the far left one? I mean it detects memory, so it should be fine unless there is a problem with the stick like you guys said. It's brand new, so I'm gonna be taking it back if there is a problem. Everyone else I talk to tells me overheating... I don't think that's it. It just doesn't seem possible. Same with the power supply thing. Brand new power supply, but I guess something could be wrong with it. Frustrating...
I was gonna try and do the higher number on the CAS setting, and then I realized I don't even know what a CAS setting is or how to change the number? It's in BIOS? I don't see it? Any elaboration for this newbie would be greatly appreciated.