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Change your Bios battery on your motherboard, and because system halted is too general it could be a hardware issue meaning RAM, etc... test your hardware...
Any new hardware installed recently? check event viewer (start>control panel>(small icon view) Admin Tools> Event Viewer> Filter to System and catagorise for Hardware failure.
Your video card determines Direct X support. If you look at Newegg.com--find a newer video card and read the tech specs most of them now support Direct X 10 or higher.
Sounds like your heatsink which is inside the computer and sits on top of the CPU is bad. There will probably be a fan that sits on top of the heatsink.
Look on ebay and purchase one for your system. http://www.ebay.com
I found a new one below on ebay for $14.95 (the link is below)
When the system is booting up press F2 or whatever the prompt screen prompts you to press to get into the system bios. From the system bios find the AGP graphics adaptor the turn it on. Save you settings upon exit and your internal card should now function. You may have to reset you screen properties in windows to get the correct screen and resolution.
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