backinblack

I had GR with the patches running just fine on my old Toshiba Satellite 1005, which I have just retired to my wife and now I am using a Presario 1500 which is a better computer, but GR does not even run on it... I either get a BSOD or one of those nasty XP messages that tells you that the program has crashed and will not run. I wonder if there is a compatibility issue with the Compaq hardware? Anyone have any insight to this?