Because there is no disk partition on the new installed HDD and Windows will not show the new HDD in "My Computer". Thus, you must find the Disk Management utility under Windows. This is located in different areas depending on your version of Windows, but for Windows XP you can find it as follows: Click on the START button and select the Control Panel Click on Performance and Maintenance Click on Administrative Tools at the bottom Double click on the Computer Management icon On the left side, expand the Storage category and click on the Disk Management icon From the Disk Management utility, you can create, change or delete partitions. Please be careful when using this utility since you can accidentally delete data. We recommend that you read any available documentation on this utility from Microsoft if you are not experienced with creating or changing hard drive partitions.

Based on Intel chipset specification, if you don't use SATA RAID feature that ICH5R/ICH6R provides, or your MB just comes with ICH5/ICH6 chip, the board you have doesn't need to install IAA under Windows XP. The ICH5/ICH6 series chip can work properly with Windows default driver.

Please update BIOS to FA or later version and also update AGP driver to ver 6.47 from Nvidia website, www.nvidia.com.

NVIDIA chipset includes a LAN MAC controller which has to be paired with a LAN PHY to provide Ethernet function. This motherboard uses either Marvell’s or Realtek’s LAN PHY, LAN PHY itself does not have any drivers the chipset manufacturer provides the drivers for the Ethernet function, therefore after installing NVIDIA chipset drivers you will see “nForce Networking” under device manager.

According to VIA, the out of sync is caused by XFree86 4.0.1 timing computation for some display modes. To solve this issue is to install through text mode. To install through text mode, type "text" when Linux asks you for installation method.