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Does the Sata drive show up in the BIOS?
In Windows XP, when you right click on "My Computer" and select "Manage" and go to "Disk Management", is the drive listed there?
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Do you have more than 1 HDD? It could be trying to install to one of the drives that has too little space. Check where the game is trying to install to.
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If you go to Control Panel then Sounds, there should be a option to show the speaker icon in the system tray.
Look here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/279435
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Going on the AMD website http://www.amd.com/us/products/desktop/graphics/amd-radeon-hd-6000/hd-6450/pages/amd-radeon-hd-6450-overview.aspx#3
they recommend a 400W PSU for the AMD Radeon HD 6450.
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What is the make and model of your motherboard.
Flashing the BIOS is very risky and if it goes wrong you will have an expensive paper weight.
I will let the security expert reply regarding virus in the BIOS, i am not sure it is even possible.