First build, and having a few issues. Help please.

[metalmaniac]

This is the first time I've posted here, so I'm hoping someone may have a solution for my problem.

This is the first time I've attempted building my own computer. I've taken quite awhile to make sure everything is plugged in and situated correctly. The components I'm using are as follows:

Antec P182 case
Intel DX38BT motherboard
Intel core 2 duo 6850 3ghz cpu
2- 1gig sticks of OCZ Reaper X Dual Channel DDR3 1333mhz ram
EVGA 8800 GTS SSC edition 640mb video card
1 WD 150gig raptor sata drive
2 regular ide hdd's from my old computer
1 Asus 20x dvd burner
Thermaltake modular 750 w Psu

I setup everything in my system and powered it up. Everything turned on and seemed to be reporting fine in the Bios, aside from the memory which was reporting 1066 instead of 1333. But from most of the things I've read, it seems to be a common issue with this mobo seeing as its new and with only the initial, and I believe one Bios update. I planned on messing with that issue after I was setup on XP (home edition, btw). I started installing XP on my new raptor drive and it went through and formatted it fine, but then right after that it came up with this error:

A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.

If this is the first time you've seen this Stop error screen, restart your computer. If this screen appears again, follow these steps:

Check to be sure you have adequate disk space. If a driver is identified in the Stop message, disable the driver or check with the manufacturer for driver updates. Try chaging video adapters.

Check with your hardware vendor for any BIOS updates. Disable BIOS memory options such as caching or shadowing. If you need to use Safe Mode to remove or disable components, restart your computer, press F8 to select Advanced Startup Options, and then select Safe Mode.

Technical Information:

Stop: 0X0000008E (OXC0000005,0XF7405E81,0XF789E9D8,0X00000000
Setupdd.sys - Address F7405E81 base at F73F3000, datestamp 3b7d8507

So I restarted and when it started up it came up with an error saying:

NTLDR is missing, and wouldn't go into the bios menu.

It also said no hard disk was detected and at one point said "Driver corrupted memory management system PTES.

I did some reading and decided to burn the ISO of the new bios update and after putting that in, it said it had finished updating and I was able to get into the bios. But after I would push the arrow key on my keyboard twice, it wouldn't move anymore. I would just push the arrow and it would go to advanced tab but if I pushed it again, its like my keyboard was disconnected. I restarted and it would do the same thing.

I did that a few times making sure the connections were tight on my keyboard, but nothing changed. I tried to start it up again and all that came up was a black screen. I did some searching and saw somewhere that when you update the bios to a new version you need to reset the CMOS. I'm not sure if that is true, but this is a brand new setup so I wasn't worried about losing settings or passwords. For some reason, this board doesn't have a CMOS jumper so I just took out the battery and waited for half an hour. Also, I had to remove the video card to take out the battery. So I put the battery back in, installed the video card again, made sure connections were good, but now when the computer turns on, the monitor won't come on. Well it does and the light stays blue at first, but then says "no signal" and turns orange, and it won't come on.

I'm stumped. The video card is seated good in the primary pci-e 16 spot just like it has been, and the fan on the card turns on and it seems fine, so I don't know. I would imagine the card isn't bad under the circumstances. I don't have another video card that I can install in this board so I can't test it that way.

If anyone has any suggestions, I would really appreciate it!