Window's appears to load but is stuck at a blue screen and not responsive

I have Windows XP Home Edition on my HP pavilion laptop.

Windows appears to go though its normal boot process
however right before it would normal complete and let you
in it stops at a BLUE screen which has just a MicroSoft
Windows logo on it (appears like the final screen on a
shut down for me actually)..

None of the safe modes will boot either (it always boots
to the same blue screen).. The mouse is responsive as are
the laptop function keys.. otherwise it appears dead. CTL-
ALT-DEL does nothing.. However I can hear the harddive
spin up like its loading my normal BOOT up stuff.. I just
recently downloaded all of the most recent patches for my
XP home edition..( because it crashed exactly like this
before and I had went a reinstall route) unfortuantly HP
gave me cruddy restore disks and not a real XP disk (so I
don't have alot of recovery tools)

Using an NTFS reader from a dos bootup I see all of my
stuff is still on the harddive (so that didn't crash).. it
almost appears like its in standby or sleeping very wierd
(Thus if wanted I could give the safemode boot log as I
can get stuff off the drive)

Any ideas of what to try..