upgrade to windows 7

[HotRats]

OP, you may have a faulty disc or drive. Try copying the Windows disc and see if the copy will install. Try squirting some compressed air into the open drive in case dust is preventing the laser reading correctly. Try turning off hard drive booting in the BIOS instead of just changing the priority. Coincidentally I've just gone from socket 939/XP to socket 1156/Windows7 and I do like the new version, some things that I'd become used to in XP are missing but it makes up for that in shininess. I'd say you're going to want at least 4GB of RAM with 7 and you may want to consider the new SATA 6gbps/USB3 boards (no practical use yet but its nice to have the sockets). If anyone's stuck for codecs for 7 try http://shark007.net/win7codecs.html