SATA formatting problems

[Fenderbender123]

Okay, so I just peiced together a new computer.
Athlon 64
1 GB Memory
ASUS K8N Motherboard
SB Audigy 2
Geforce 6800
Seagate SATA 200GB HD

Everything's working fine until Windows XP tries to partition and then format the HD. The format always fails saying the disk may be damaged. I read some other forums and they said to make a floppy with the Motherboard's SATA drivers and press F6 on startup to install a serial/raid (since sata is so similar) and then load those drivers from there. Well I tried that and it will get to about 50-90% done and I get a blue screen saying the drivers unloaded. Any suggestions? Thanks everyone (I'm new here by the way )

 

[Praetor]

1. If you've got another computer to test the drive on, do so
2. Next time, use the Quick Format. It should take a whopping 2 seconds so if the drive fails within that section you got problems.
3. I think your problem is memory related though so definitely give that a look