"Serious Error" on new hard drive

Hi,

I have had a few problems starting Windows XP (pro) lately so I bought a new hard drive and had Windows XP (home) installed. I now have both my new hard drive and my old hard drive (which still has the old XP on it and my files) on the computer. This morning when I tried to turn it on it wouldn't start up - it was saying something about booting from a cd (I didn't write it down..sorry). Now it's working but when I started it up it came up with a message saying:

"The system has recovered from a serious error"

And mentioned the following files:

C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini120806-01.dmp

C:\DOCUME~1\Jessica\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER1(or I or l).tmp.dir00\Sysdata.xml

Does anyone know what this could be related to? Could the computer be confused about where to boot up from? I am worried because the last time my computer came up with that message, it stopped working a couple days later.

thank you

 

On the weekend when I turned it on it turned on fine but this morning it was worse than ever. It just kept restarting, even after windows came on. Sometimes I wouldn't hear the beep sound and it would just be black. Is this something to do with the bios?

The other day when I turned it on it was a black screen with a message at the top reading:

Connect 3D RV100 DDR BIOS

I didn't know what to do. I pressed enter and nothing happened, I wasn't sure what it was asking me or telling me. So I restarted.

I've got a new hard drive so surely it can't be a fault with the hard drive or windows XP can it?

It continues to tell me that I have recovered from a serious error.

Can anyone give me any help or advice, or direct me towards some information. Thanks.