So this is how it started.

I was working on my pc last week had music players and bearshare running at that time and suddenly pc just froze. i restarted it but it came up with different options like start normally blah blah blah start with last known good configuration. I tried all of em but nothing works...it ll go to the black screen where loading bar on the bottom shows progressing and then after it finishes its journey from left to right the screen stays black n nothing happens after that.

Tried loading a fresh copy of windows xp pro again but after loading drivers etc it comes to Setup is starting(or Loading) Windows. thats it.

Blue screen saying windows on top and "setup is loading windows" on bottom. I have tried 3 different windows xp cds thinking maybe my own cd is corrupted but still the same. I went out and bought new hard drive but still exact same thing. I left the pc at the same point the whole night but nothing happened. Seems like a hardware issue but what could it be.

Its a AMD Athlon XP 2000+ with 512 mb ddr(dunno which one)

can anyone help me out of this issue please?

Thanx a lot in advance
Raj

???????....anyone....help me out here please guys.....any clue as to what happened here...
Cheers
Raj

Run Memtest to check the integrity of your RAM, and clean out your fan's heatsink to ensure that this isn't the cause of overheating.

how long have you left your computer in the black screen before you give up and shut it down again.

Also have you added any new hardware into your computer recently?

I have tried leaving it for a while but it stays on black screen, fans working and lights are on but nothing happens, tried using a new harddrive and installing fresh copy of windows still would not work. Even changed the RAM with the one I had previously had on pc and tried installing the windows on new hard drive with different ram module but it ll freeze at the blue screen saying set up is starting windows. I have tried all this and even cleaned the heatsink but it just would not do much. Any Suggestions.Its freaking me out.

Raj

Is your hard disk sata - do you have raid?

windows wonmt install on SATA disks unless you have a driver floppy and hit F6 when it says "hit f6 to load a 3rd party raid/scsi driver)

Try reseting the bios settings to default and see if that will work. I have done this a few times in the past when this has been happening and it has worked.

My hard drive is actually sata...n funnily i dont have any floppy driver to install 3rd party raid/scsi driver...i might have to end up getting it sorted by our local pc repair centre...but why would it not install this time because i didnot have any trouble installin it last time.....cos i did try to install it on the previous hard drive but it just wouldn't do it....just can't understand how is it possible that one second it was runnin just fine next it wont install a fresh copy either

Are you overloading your system with still having your printer, video card, logitech drivers etc upon the initial setup? Try having the bare minimums. Monitor, keyboard and mouse. You might even have to remove CD roms from the motherboard after a reload of windows xp until the onboard drivers are loaded and then add one device at a time. each time besure after restarting to do a proper shut down and then add the next device.

I have been tryin just with the k'board, mouse, monitor only. Only additional driver it might be using would be for additional cd drive which is my second drive apart from the dvd rw drive which is being used for installing windows. I am so close to kicking this damn machine outta frustration. Please dont make me do it. Help me out.
Raj