After 2 Trojans invaded and destroyed my last PC, we rebuilt from the bottom up. I have:
Machspeed PM2MP mobo
Intel Celeron D335 2.8 GB processor
Samsung 80 G hdd with a Maxtor 40 G backup
1 GB RAM via 2 chips (one is Rosewill, one is PQI Power).
Friday night the system was running smoothly. Saturday morning it wouldn't even jog!
The 'reset' button gets me to the sysinfo page and freezes. Turning it off gets me to various stages of "Starting Windows", depending on how long it's off. It hasn't gotten beyond the "Windows 2000 Pro is starting". I F8-ed for a Safe Mode or Last known Good Config, but the arrows won't move.
I've had previous problems with RAM (one of the new sticks was bad), so I pulled them and switched slots; pulled one out entirely; tried a start-up with a stick in in the near slot, then in the far slot...
I run Ad-Aware daily and have Trend Security for virus. I down load nothing but up-dates for anti-virus, and security settings are all on med. high.
Any ideas?