XP/2000 installation does not start

I have a celeron 1.70GHz PC with a Gigabyte Motherboard, 256MB DDR RAM(pc266), 40GB Samsung HDD.My problem is that I can install windows 98 on the PC, but when i try installing Windows 2000/XP the machine starts the initialisation of the hardware and process and then when the blue screen with the message ‘setup will start installation of windows ‘ appears it stays like that and there is no further progress. The installation does not proceed from there.. Could someone please provide a solution for the same..