New hard drive, new video card and crashing XP

[Guest]

Hi folks,

....wondered if anyone had an idea to stop XP from crashing after a new hard
drive and new video card were installed.

Startup goes to black screen after the "welcome" screen is visible and
system hangs. After unplugging the machine from power and replugging in, the
BIOS screen comes up with the following message:

"During the last boot-up your system hung for an improper CPU setting. Your
system is now working in safe mode. To optimize the system performance and
reliability, make sure the CPU speed conforms to the specifications of the
CPU"
I've got the CPU setting on 1000 mhz....What gives?

Thanks for your help,

 

[Guest]

new info to add:
just checked the system event viewer and it says this:" AMLI: ACPI BIOS is
attempting to read from an illegal IO port address 0xcfc which lies in the
0xcfc8-0xcff protected address range. This could lead to system instablility."

Now - this sounds like the problem. How do I fix this please?

 

[Mike Hall \(MS-MVP\)]

Sassy

Go into BIOS and load BIOS optimal 'defaults'.. also ensure that CPU jumpers
if present are not set to overclock the CPU.. then try again to load XP..