I hope someone may be able to help with this problem.

I have a computer which was working properly.  Unfortnunately, it suffered
an accident resulting in requiring a new motherboard.

On changing the motherboard, the hard disc would not take the repair
facility on the xp cd.  I took the decision to back the hard disc up (by
using another computer) and formating the disc.

However it refused to take the XP installation, continually locking.

I then tried to install XP using another computer and it worked.  However it
still would not work using the 'old' computer on which it is required.  The
nature of XP does not allow the operating system installed on one computer
to be used on another.

I then formated the disc using an ME start up disc.  The computer continued
to hang on trying to install windows XP.  But I could install windows ME
which I did.  Windows XP installs perfectly.

I then tried to install XP as an update.  The process starts up and then
continues until installing files, when it either hangs on 69 minutes left
(from an initial 82 mins) or the computer reboots.  I tried copying the
files onto an external hard drive but on the computer I want to install the
files to, trying this fails during copying the folder i386 and the computer
reboots.  The files copy from another computer onto the external drive.  The
external hard drive files are all accessible from the computer I want to
update without problems under Windows ME.  However if I use the files from
the XP disc which have been copied to the external drive, this causes the
same problem.

The processor of the Motherboard is well suited to XP (AMD Sempron) and the
motherboard is an AS Rock K8s8x. The hard drive is an IDE drive.

Any suggestions?