"U appear to have reset ur cmos or bios to default settings!!! press windows key and pause/break on the ur keyboard whilst at the desktop and see wat ur cpu clock says!! It shud be 2.2ghz or near that!!!!"
Yes it says 2.17ghz but i reformatted many times and never came upon this problem
"When you formatted and reinstalled xp did you install the motherboard drivers?"
Yes I did install my motherboards drivers, I have reformatted my computer many times before and never seen this problem.