dave597 said:you may have a broken piece of either hardware, or software driver. Think you should run in safe mode and see which driver it pauses on. Or maybe you have noticed a broken piece of hardware lately - try removing that and put it back in. Later/
SlothX311 said:i forget which one it is for xp, partially because i never use safe mode....but right after your computer POST's hit F5 and F8 rapid fire its one of the two...im leaning more towards F5 though