It sounds like the hard drive... if you had a program like BootSkinXP, corrupting hal.dll doesn't sound like a normal issue. Norton should have caught a virus in hal.dll if it was corrupted in a...

Thanks for all your help with this problem, everybody. After all this time, I finally found out what the problem was.

It was the power supply unit. :eek:

I swapped it out, and the problems...

Memtest86 sounds like a good idea. As for the CPU, I have no way of knowing since I only have one chip to test with. I put a dab of thermal compound on the CPU and I spread a thin coat on the bottom...

Okay... I'm fixing a computer for my father's co-worker. The XP box started rebooting for no reason at all when he was running some programs a couple weeks ago. He approached me at work a few times...

Yep, a reinstall did the trick... no more delay for the boot screen. However, the delay for the networking to load is still present... ;_;

Hahahaha, UNIX/Linux rocks. However, I'm fixing this computer for somebody else, so I think they'd be more suited to MacOS. Hehehe. XD

Thanks for all your suggestions. Hopefully, I'll fix it by...

Actually, that was my next plan. Thanks for suggesting it, though. ^^

I just hope it's not a hardware problem...

Try rebooting in Safe Mode with Networking, and run HouseCall on www.trendmicro.com (http://www.trendmicro.com) ^^ If it's a virus, another virus scanner will pick it up and be able to clean it,...

I got a weird problem. I have a system that hangs for about 20 seconds between POST and the WinXP boot screen. After that, the system boots up in about 15 seconds. However, the Connect To menu in the...