For a pentium d, 55*C to 60*C is the preferred load temperature. If you go higher (60*C-75*C) the fans will spin up to higher speeds. Anything above 70*-75*C is unsafe and may cause problems and...

55*C is not normal for startup temps of the video card, so that's why it's speeding up. As long as you can play games without hitting 85-95*C you'll be fine. Spray the computer with compressed air to...

as the person above me said, those are your options, but, a bios update may be necessary. if it fails, ur pc is screwed. i don't personally recommend upgrading an oem pc, but if u can do it, congrats.

I recently built a new pc with the following:

Ultra aluminus midtower case
Ultra X-Pro 600watt psu APFC 80 PLUS
Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3L Motherboard
IntelCore 2 Duo E7200 @2.53ghz
PNY 2gb...

great that you got an upgrade. i found 2gb ddr2-800 ram for 39.99 (from PNY) at newegg.com

it is high quality ram, and vista gave it a 5.9 rating. nonetheless, xp should run smoothly on your pc...

try:

repair microsoft office
repair windows xp pro
reinstall microsoft office
reinstall microsoft xp pro

google your bsod and see what you get, b/c it could either be a software or hardware...

one of the items may be defective, or unsupported by your pc.

Check the following items in order:


video card
ram
hard drive
power supply
other hardware
check for cmos/post beeps

More than likely one of the slots is under the keyboard, and requires a little more digging to uncover. While you look for this second slot, install the one gig in place of the 512mb in the slot, and...

are u using vga, dvi, composite, component, hdmi, or svideo? if vga, run in safemode with video, or something like that and see if it works

make sure that you run it in administrator mode.