XP Home boot sceen ... doesn't look to be hanging .... yup it is ... HELP!!

[RedEye]

Greeting,

I have never seen this one before so any help would be appriciated.

OS: Windows XP Home SP2

Here is the issue. You start up the system and you reach the boot screen.
The progress bar starts to progress and progress and progress.

Ok, I thought that a way of telling if your system is hanging is the
progress bar stops. Well it's not stopping.
I can however boot the system into safe mode with network support. I went
into the event veiwer and I'm not seeing anything there to would give me a
clue as to what is going on.

Has anyone seen this happen before?

Thanks in advance!

Bryan

 

[Guest]

You have to ask yourself (since we don't know), has anything!!! been changed
recently? programs, drivers, hardware, etc.

 

[RedEye]

I knew I forgot to add something....

The only thing that was added was a cd cover design application. That
applicatoin has been removed and the problem did not go away.
No drivers or hardware has been added.

 

[Guest]

run "System Restore" from Safe Mode.
it's the first logical thing to try.