Thanks wazza300 and Conners for your help.
I have a copy of XP Pro SP3 which gives the same result as XP Pro SP2 and XP Home SP1 and also Vista (I think SP1) - remember that Me (2000) installs fully as I understand that that OS does not check devices on install.
I have also now tried to leave it sit there when it stalls (for 4 hours) and retried a few times later-on by just hitting reset and not formatting etc. to see if it helped - but same result as doing a full format etc.
In my previous post I asked about "SetUpapi.log files" (M/Soft kb828267) and have been checking it more - it seems that stalling near 34 minutes to finish is a common issue but I do not understand Microsoft's solutions yet. Maybe I should try their Support site as it may be a software issue more than a Gigabyte motherboard or BIOS issue.
If anyone has any answers to the other questions in the previous post I would appreciate any comments.
If I do get this problem fixed I will post the information - but it seems like it might be a long while.
Thanks again for everyone's help.
Regards
Waga



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