My main computer was running fine last night, until all of a sudden it started "pausing" frequently - as in the mouse wouldn't move and ctrl-alt-delete wouldn't respond (until it unpaused in which case they all turn up). The hard disc light showed activity but im not too sure if there was any real activity (if you know what i mean).
so I switch it off and come back to it later when I had time - the problem started before I got into windows and I done several resets and got varying results - from having the windows splash screen freezing (including the blue bar animation stopped), to getting a welcome screen, to having a mouse pointer (which just froze indefinately). couldnt even get into safe mode - it listed all the stuff loaded, but pretty much stopped after that. so again, not much time to think about it.
Switched it on in the morning in a last ditch attempt - and it loaded a windows 2000 style login screen - strange because i don't need a login for this computer, but logged in anyway . . . the wallpapers (on a dual screen) loaded up and there seemd to be some activity. . . no pauses. But then it logged out (before even loading explorer), getting the "saving your settings" message and went straight back to the login screen.
I tried the administrators account and the same thing happens, it'll "log in", only to log straight back out to the login screen. It even does this in safe mode (which I now can get into . . . .except I can't).
Anyone have any ideas? Ive been running this setup for almost 2 years wihtout even a hitch, this just baffles me!
Im running Windows XP Pro SP1, abit NF7-S v2, 2x 80gb SATA drives, 2x512MB Corsair PC3200, AMD XP2400+ . . .
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