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So my brother has his own Desktop and about 3 months ago he had Windows VISTA on it and Minecraft worked fine!
2 months ago the computer crashed, and now it has Windows XP on it. but the problem is that minecraft dose not work even though it is the same computer.

Things i have done to fix the problem
-Update direct X
-Update the Video card drivers
-Uninstall java and Re install the latest version
-getting a batch file that has OpenGL Disabled
- And MANY MORE

ALL of these do NOT WORK!

my brother really wants to do lets plays with me, and just play minecraft and he is really Bumbed.

So if any of you could help in any way it would be greatly appreciated if you dont want to talk here you can add my skype

@:Erckberk97

Thanks!

more information would help with fixing the problem, what happens when you try to start minecraft.exe, if there are any errors what EXACTLY do they say

--- BEGIN ERROR REPORT 7fe0271 --------
Generated 9/5/12 4:38 AM

- Minecraft Version: 1.4.5
- Operating System: Windows XP (x86) version 5.1
- Java Version: 1.7.0_09, Oracle Corporation
- Java VM Version: Java HotSpot™ Client VM (mixed mode), Oracle Corporation
- Memory: 9148880 bytes (8 MB) / 32436224 bytes (20 MB) up to 1037959168 bytes (989 MB)
- JVM Flags: 1 total; -Xms1024m
- LWJGL: 2.4.2
- OpenGL: ~ERROR~ NullPointerException: null
- Is Modded: Probably not
- Type: Client
- Texture Pack: ~ERROR~ NullPointerException: null
- Profiler Position: N/A (disabled)[failed to get system properties (java.lang.NullPointerException)]org.lwjgl.LWJGLException: Pixel format not accelerated
at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsPeerInfo.nChoosePixelFormat(Native Method)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsPeerInfo.choosePixelFormat(WindowsPeerInfo.java:52)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsDisplay.createWindow(WindowsDisplay.java:185)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.createWindow(Display.java:311)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:856)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:784)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:765)
at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.a(SourceFile:233)
at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.run(SourceFile:516)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
--- END ERROR REPORT bc6906a ----------

Quote from BradMCGamer

--- BEGIN ERROR REPORT 7fe0271 --------
Generated 9/5/12 4:38 AM

- Minecraft Version: 1.4.5
- Operating System: Windows XP (x86) version 5.1
- Java Version: 1.7.0_09, Oracle Corporation
- Java VM Version: Java HotSpot™ Client VM (mixed mode), Oracle Corporation
- Memory: 9148880 bytes (8 MB) / 32436224 bytes (20 MB) up to 1037959168 bytes (989 MB)
- JVM Flags: 1 total; -Xms1024m
- LWJGL: 2.4.2
- OpenGL: ~ERROR~ NullPointerException: null
- Is Modded: Probably not
- Type: Client
- Texture Pack: ~ERROR~ NullPointerException: null
- Profiler Position: N/A (disabled)[failed to get system properties (java.lang.NullPointerException)]

org.lwjgl.LWJGLException: Pixel format not accelerated
at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsPeerInfo.nChoosePixelFormat(Native Method)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsPeerInfo.choosePixelFormat(WindowsPeerInfo.java:52)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsDisplay.createWindow(WindowsDisplay.java:185)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.createWindow(Display.java:311)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:856)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:784)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:765)
at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.a(SourceFile:233)
at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.run(SourceFile:516)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
--- END ERROR REPORT bc6906a ----------

It appears you have a 32-bit version of Java installed. Try uninstalling all Java versions on your PC and downlading the 64-bit here. If that doesn't work, try posting a DxDiag for us, please.

Quote from DewaldDeJager

It appears you have a 32-bit version of Java installed. Try uninstalling all Java versions on your PC and downlading the 64-bit here.

NO NO NO don't do that. You have Windows XP 32bit so DO NOT install java 64 bit.

This looks like its an older GPU driver that may not have high enough OpenGL support. Posting the DXdiag report DewaldDeJager requested would be helpful.

Thanks rodabon, have no idea what I was thinking. Must have gotten mixed up with x86 and x64, so forgive me for that.