sonofmof

I hope someone here can help me. I am running XP pro in my PC and am having Problems with nearly all my games !!! I am getting wingdings type characters instead of text in Black and White. Red alert 2 and Messiah are unplayable when the bother to load at all and the Sims disks take ages to load up . I have a thunderbird 1400 Abit KG7 512Mb DDR Ram 80Gb Seagate Barracuda Matrox G400 I have converted my drive back to FAT32 and re-installed everything and still no better. All the Software is genuine ( I'm a mug I know !) so I cannot even blame it on Pirate copies !! Any Ideas ?