Lockup

[John Smith]

Running Windows XP pro. Administrator account is password protected. System
boot normally to login.
I move cursor to the password window and try to enter
password characters. The mouse cursor freezes and no
characters(the little dots) appear in the password box.
Everything appears frozen. System reset to force reboot
and everything works fine.

Any ideas what could cause this?

TIA

 

[Jack]

It could be a corrupt registry, a nasty virus, or your computer has
had enough. You could try to do a clean install if you have copies of
all your files.

 

[Unknown]

What do you mean 'your computers had enough'?????

 

[Jack]

Your computer has just given up.

 

[Unknown]

You mean it had a hardware failure.