Windows XP hangs on boot, computer heats up

Hi,
I recently had my Nvidia card replaced in my Mac Book Pro, OSX 10.4.11 and since then tried to boot up Windows XP with Bootcamp. Windows XP hangs on booting and the computer heats up incredibly quickly. Does anyone know why I can't boot in Windows or how to fix this? The mac partition works fine and I can access my documents etc from windows through the mac side. But I do need to run certain programs on Windows. Any help is appreciated.

Hi and welcome to Discussions,
first thing I would try are the Safe Boot Options of XP described here http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B315222&x=10&y=11 and especially the 'enable VGA' option to ensure that XP is okay.
While in Safe Boot maybe deinstalling the Nvidia graphics driver currently installed can help.
Might be that because of the replacement, the new one isn't correctly detected.
Hope it helps
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> In Disk Utility, does the Bootcamp partition report as NTFS?
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00000000 eb 52 90 4e 54 46 53 20 20 20 20 00 02 08 00 00 |.R.NTFS .....|
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00000060 1f 1e 68 66 00 cb 88 16 0e 00 66 81 3e 03 00 4e |..hf......f.>..N|
00000070 54 46 53 75 15 b4 41 bb aa 55 cd 13 72 0c 81 fb |TFSu..A..U..r...|
00000080 55 aa 75 06 f7 c1 01 00 75 03 e9 dd 00 1e 83 ec |U.u.....u.......|
00000090 18 68 1a 00 b4 48 8a 16 0e 00 8b f4 16 1f cd 13 |.h...H..........|
000000a0 9f 83 c4 18 9e 58 1f 72 e1 3b 06 0b 00 75 db a3 |.....X.r.;...u..|
000000b0 0f 00 c1 2e 0f 00 04 1e 5a 33 db b9 00 20 2b c8 |........Z3... +.|
000000c0 66 ff 06 11 00 03 16 0f 00 8e c2 ff 06 16 00 e8 |f...............|
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