issues with new computer

[Biscuit]

I have just put together some new parts
- Abit IP-35-E
- E4500
- OCZ platinum PC6400

along with the exsisting

- 3 sata HDDs
- Lite-on Sata DVD rewriter
- 320MB 8800GTS
- Xclio greatpower 550w
- Auzentech Xplosion

I have been trying to get XP MCE on for 24 hours now and its driving me insane, i got it to install once but it wouldnt recognise the mouse and keyboard in USB. Now when i boot i get the message BOOT DRIVE FAILURE INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER

I have my boot drive priority set up correctly, i have tried the boot order in all different configurations and im stumped, any ideas lads?

[Viper81]

Is your BIOS definitely seeing all the hard drives correctly? If it is, I'd try booting to a recovery console using the XP CD and run a "fixboot" and "fixmbr" and go from there ..

[Biscuit]

i think the issue was down to an old boot record in a different hard drive, it seems to be working now, took a while for it to recognise my mouse but it did eventually. No doubt i will have more issues on the way to competing the build so watch this space

[Biscuit]

Ok having a few problems still, windows and everything seems to work "ok" but for some reason programs hang when i try and open them for the first 2-3 minutes once windows is all loaded. This cant be antivirus or any other software running in the background cuz its a clean install. Another issue which has occured with a few peoples computers throughout the halls im in is with windows messenger and update, for some reason they dont seem to connect to the microsoft servers, any ideas i could look into?

Note: this software all works fine if its installed outside of halls then the computer is brought into them