hi,
so i have an acer desktop, windows xp, 512 mb, 160 gb, and generally run norton once a week.
lately my computer freezes on start up, right at the welcome screen before the desktop even loads. the fan sounded like a dying seal, so i opened it up and everything was disgustingly dusty. after a good cleaning, it no longer sounds like it's dying, but it is still freezing at the welcome screen. i am totally at a loss.
any ideas? i am fairly clueless when dealing with computers, so any input would be totally appreciated!
oh, and when it goes thru the disk check it says
"\program files\common files\symantec shared\SNDF.log first allocation unit is not valid. the entry will be truncated."
/thanks so much!