Had some interesting problem that was solved today.
Had this Foxconn via 890 based amd motherboard, Which froze in the middle of booting acronis trueimage cd/dvd and windows Xp pro install.
I've noticed that acronis DOES BOOT from Sandisk Usb drive. Replaced Sata nec drive to another one,Replaced memory - nothing helped.
sent motherboard for replacement, And similiar problem occured with new motherboard....Hmmmm
Connected old Ide cdrom drive which windows xp install went perfectly, And right now I am writing from this computer.....
Seems that there is some drive function problem with the nec sata drive I tried (AD-7170S)