I just finished my new build. when i power it up it goes through its boot series and gets to a point were it says media test failure, and under that it says exiting intel boot agent. In the bios, the hard drive and the cd rom are recognized. when i put in the xp disk it acts like its loading everything and at the end when it says starting windows, a blue screen comes up there may be a virus or corruption. this is my first build and any advice would be appreciated Thanks

I doubt it is a virus as you have not indicated doing anything that a virus could have been transmitted to your system. The blue screen of death at boot up time simply means the files that find your operating system are not working properly. Specifically, if you want to Google them they are NTLDR (NT Boot Loader), Boot.ini (tells the system the name and location of your system) NTDETECT.COM (inventories your hardware) and HAL.DLL also monitors hardware. If you could get those three files on a disk-NTLDR, Boot.ini and NTDETECT.COM, then it would boot. They are located in the C:\ drive of any computer with windows but you have to release the hidden files button first...best thing to do is go to the Microsoft Knowledge Base at support.microsoft.com and research your error and those files..you're not the only one this has happened to so there may be a fix in the knowledge base. Besides its good practice to use the Knowledge Base as you can find out about any answer on windows there..good luck. Please rate this solutionl.

The error about Intel Boot agent is normal. That can be used to boot a diskless workstation or to install an operating system on a new PC over a network.

The BSOD is another matter though. Did you format and reinstall XP on the hard drive you are using? Or are you using XP from an old hard drive from another PC?

If you are booting up on an old hard drive with XP already on it then the problem is caused by Windows using drivers from the old PC on the new PC. For that, you will need to format and reinstall XP

IF XP is crashing after you have formatted and reinstalled XP on the hard drive then one of the devices from the new PC is likely causing a crash. See if you can get it to start in Safe Mode.

In the BIOS, turn off virus protection. What is happening is the XP setup program is attempting to modify the boot sector of the hard drive and the BIOS virus detection algorithm notes this change to the Master Boot Record as viral behavior and tries to stop the modification.

The media test failure message is letting you know that you do not have a cable connected to your Ethernet port and the Intel boot agent exit message reflects a failure to boot the computer off of a network server.