OK I think the only remedy now is getting an IDE hd.
So I bought a IDE to SATA adapter. I plug it into my first IDE channel on motherboard. Then hook my sata drive to that. It reads it fine in bios. It boots finally from my windows xp cd but it takes longer then normal. At least 30 - 40 seconds to just have it display " Setup is inspecting your computer's hardware configuration." This stays on for 5 seconds. Then I get a black screen with nothing happening. Since I've been typing this its blank. 2 minutes so far.
So maybe its the win xp cd I am running.
I pop in a different cd winxp 9 in 1 cd. I get the menu and select the version to install. Then it repeats as I typed above.
So maybe its the hard drive. I format on a working computer another sata drive. I try both methods above and the same thing happens.
So as I final effort I boot another CD I have created that is loaded with Diagnostic dos applications and the such. I am able to load the menu. I can't load a samsung hard drive diagnostic program or Partition magic 8 because of error ""INT 13 08: Failure". I think that means it is having trouble reading a drive?
I am able to load a program called PC-CHECK and it checked everything as Passed.
Any other ideas anyone?