Could be a virus, but let's not draw thatconclusion quite yet. When did this begin to hapen? Do you remember if it was right after a hardware upgrade of some sort, or was it after you installed a program of some kind?
What you ccan first do is isolate any hardware problems. Remove al the expansion cards/hardware from your computer that you don't need. Ex : excess PCI slots, excess cd-roms drives, storage HDD. Now boot up with only your mandatory harddrive and essential hardware. Do you still have problems?
What you might also try is a "system restore" feature. Pop in your operating system CD-Rom and boot from it. Run the recovery console and see if it now boots better after it's finished.
My last guess would be that it is indeed a virus, and you will need some more advanced help for this. Hopefully somoene else can give some additional tips as well. But I would recommend trying to boot into Safe Mode via the F8 key while booting. This will load a DOS looking screen, and you should choose "Safe Mode" (dont try with networking or anything yet.
To simply start fresh, you can backup everything you want to keep on your existing harddrive to another harddrive, then format it. But this wont be necessary if it's siply a hardware problem or corrupt OS boot up files.
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