error code pls help

[ghostdancer]

pls help
am useing knoppix to try and diagnose a windows problem

knoppix will try and boot till it get to the logo screen the monitor go blank and freezes

am haveing similar probs with windows is a new mobo/cpu set up
mobo is an ASUS a7v8x-x with a barton 2500xp cpu sys get to the OS choose screen in windows xp will noy boot to windows or the recovery console

i got an error code from knoppix which i think was CRC error
any comment/ help would be appreciated

[Markus]

Could be a video problem, have you tried any Cheatcodes (http://www.knoppix.net/docs/index.php/CheatCodes)?
Especially things like: xserver=??? and xmodule=??? (substitute ??? with your video hardware).

[ghostdancer]

thank you
this ties up with other info i have since found that the bios shipped with board needs to be updated as it has issuse with some ATI graphics cards, amongst other things will try a differsnt card in new sys