Hello. I am having a problem and I am at my wits end.

The Background:

I assembled a new system last night.

Antec 900 case
e8400 chip
Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3l 775 P45 RT mobo
Corsair 750 watt CPU
2 x 2GB G Skill Ram
640 GB HD
LD DVD R/RW+
BFG 9800 GT 512 MB video card

It went together very smoothly. Booted right up. I installed all of the updates from the giga byte disk that came with the mobo. I then installed an enterprise edition of xp pro. Installed AVG antivirus, zone alarm firewall, and completed updated the OS toXP service pack 3. Then I tried to install the driver for the video card. Near the end of the installtion the unit completely locks up. When I restart, I get to the screen that says go safe mode, safe mode with networking, last known good configuration or start normally. By default, the start normally option is selected. At this time I cannot get the keyboard to function so I cannot choose any option but start normally. Every time I do this, the unit ges into a permanent hang on the Windows XP screen.

Anyone have an idea how to fix this?

Thank you in advance

Press F8 to go in safe mode and unistall the drivers for the video card.
Restart and reinstall the video card drivers.
Or else do a system restore to before you installed the video card drivers.

You may need a keyboard with a PS2 connector, or enable legacy USB device support in the BIOS for a USB keyboard to work.

Thank you for the help. How do you enable legacy USB device support in the BIOS? I cannot seem to find anything on the BIOS set up screens that refer to this.

Agree with both evo and dx on a side note i have had many problems with sp3 i have some info i will try to find

oops I found the usb keyboard support. Thank you so much!!

here is some info if it turns out to be a sp3 problem http://support.microsoft.com/oas/d [...] rid=522131 and http://support.microsoft.com/winxp#tab0 hope it helps

Found this in case anyone else runs into it. I am running a 22" Samsung LCD and apparently that is part of the problem.

http://forums.overclockers.com.au/ [...] p?t=706145, I am about to hook up an old CRT and see if that fixes it.

Final Solution if anyone else runs across it is to update the BIOS. The monitor has nothing to dow ith it.

Thanks to all that helped.