Sata Drive Issues

As my systems specs below show I have a p4p800se motherboard from Asus. I've been having a little trouble formating and using the new SATA drive I recently purchased. Over the past day or so, whenever the sata port is connected and has a partition on it, my system experiences general instability. I can create a partition in windows xp safe mode however when I reboot into normal mode, thats where I run into problems. I usually am not able to create a partition in normal mode, but once in a while the operating systems creates it, but after a minute or two of working with the machine I get a BSOD. However the crash dumps don't seem to point to one problem driver or file. My suspicion is that the underlying problem is a memory timing issue, (currently set at BIOS defaults) or a motherboard problem with the SATA controller itself. Or could it be something else? Given that I'm a novice at reading dump files, I was wondering if anyone could take a look at them and give their opinion. Wasn't sure what the etiquette was on posting dump logs, I've got 8, in the forum so I'll wait for a response.

OS: Windows XP Pro SP2
ASUS P4P800SE Socket 478 Intel 865PE ATX Intel Motherboard
Intel Pentium 4 3.0E Prescott 3.0GHz Socket 478 Processor Model BX80546PG3000E
EVGA 256-A8-N340-TX GeForce 6600 256MB DDR AGP 4X/8X Video Card
Thermaltake TR2 W0070RUC ATX 430W Power Supply
CORSAIR ValueSelect 1GB (2 x 512MB) (PC 3200) VS1GBKIT400

~Primary IDE Channel~
Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ST3200822A 200GB <--- Boot Drive
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320620A 320 GB

~Secondary IDE Channel~
NEC DVD Burner Black IDE/ATAPI Model ND-3540A

~SATA Ports~
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320620AS 320GB SATA 3.0Gb/s