I have a Dell Dimension 2400 with the standard hardware: Pentium 4 @ 1.6 GHz...?

It used to run XP fine but I now need to re-install the OS because the hard drive crashed and I bought another one. When I installed Windows 2000 Pro SP4, the install seemed to go well but upon first reboot, it gave me a blue stop screen saying that something was wrong with the video drivers or something. Upon subsequent reboots it just halts with a blinking cursor in the upper left screen. Any ideas? Ideas for a working Windows 2000 Pro install or XP install welcomed. I don't care much about OSs. Thanks in advance.