reinstalling on new laptop

[unmerged(36587)]

I reinstalled EU2 on my new laptop, with Win XP, and after having chosen the State, when I press "Start", it obscurates, and Windows says there's an error, and I can't play
In my old PC Pentium III 500 mhz on Win 98 it worked, even though sometimes slow, and sometimes the game finished by its own and I had to save every minute for avoiding to lose everything. But now it doesn't even start. What can I do?

Thanks

 

[Castellon]

Okay let's try some standard things.
1) Rename the AVI folder to AVI_back
2) Set the color depth to 16BIT
3) Turn off everything in the background like E-mail/ICQ/Messenger, Virus protection and everything in the system tray beside the clock