it's all good now
ok now......the problem cleared up....what i did was uninstall my video adapter and let xp install one that it thought worked best and it used an AtI rage one too but i think it's a previous version other then the one on dell.com that is supposed to be the current one. also i uninstalled directx 8 and installed version 7. i don;t know which one took care of the crash problem but it's all fine now. it runns at around 25fps which is too damn slow but hey, i get to see my fish and the laptop is about 2 years old. i'll be getting a new one soon so no worry about that. thanks everyone.
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