Just got SL; Doesn't load

Hello

I just downloaded SL to see what all the fuss is about, but it doesn't load. I get a Detecting Hardware window, then it looks like the SL windows loads (I get a title bar at the top of my screen, nothing else) then *blip* it's gone. Checking task manager indicates that the process itself is gone.

I'm using the most current drivers for my system, as it's a gaming pc (ok I shouldn't really say it's a gaming pc, as it isn't built for gaming but it's what I use and what I currently have a budget for)

Sempron 2200+
1gb DDR ram (pc3200? i think)
160gb 7200 rpm HDD
ATI Radeon X1600 Pro 256
etc etc

That's the jist of it. So what could be causing this loading crash?

Have a look here:
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or here:
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Might be your ATI card as well...
Regards, Jonas

Yup, read your thread and a few others on crashing. Even a mac one after doing a search on the subject (something to with color depth).

What I find odd is my pc behave erratically after SL crashes. I've opened task manager after SL failed to load and I have 16 instances of EditPad.exe running. And then noticed that the taskmgr process was soon joined by 5 more, even though I had only opened one. I eventually had to restart my pc because a bunch of processes just started randomly appearing, none of which actually brought up any programs. Dreamweaver opened too, and I found that interesting as I had run DW previous to SL. Perhaps there's a memory overload going on and SL starts executing random code from memory?

In any case I've uninstalled the program. I really don't need a rogue app launching processes from memory on it own. Fast way to corruption, that is.