SainT 2.30 and 2.40 not working on old WinXP laptop

[rabindranath72]

...whereas version 2.21 works fine.
In particular, SainT 2.30 simply crashes when started, whereas SainT 2.40 doesn't show any menus (and when invoked with F12, the program crashes); it's also very slow, and sounds are distorted.
My laptop is a Compaq Presario 1215EA (192Mb RAM, 20Gb hard disk, Windows XP SP3, last version of DirectX distributed in 2010.)
Anyone experienced something similar?