Comp hangs at 'Setup is inspecting your computer's hardware configuration'

[mountingmuppet]

.. after booting from the XP home cd.
anyone had any experience with this problem, and if so, what did they do to resolve it?

Any solutions ive found on the net need a working floppy drive to carry out, and as my a: drive isnt recognising floppys atm I can't resolve the situation.

 

[mountingmuppet]

thanks i'll give it a try and report back

 

[mountingmuppet]

Well, it didn't work.

I've read that i might need to turn shadowing and all caching off in the bios and then try again...
Any adverse affects to me doing this? I dont think ive even heard of shadowing.