The last couple of weeks the computer of my son doesn't go any further than the Windows XP screen. He can get into the safe mode. I would have normally thought the puter is too light for Windows XP but it has worked very well for a long time. Any trouble-shooting suggestions?

Can you pass on any more info? Just hoping to narrow the scope.

Things like:

what the machine has on it, regarding spyware protect, and things are downloaded alot to it.

SP1/SP2

what was happening last time it worked fine.

what has been tried in Safe Mode

sorry for the grogily put together list its 3am and i am still working on school work.

also, if you enable boot-logging what does it say, and if you watch this list that it can show of stuff it loads at boot-time, what is the last driver it gets up - its too late (1am) and i'm high on drugs (heave painkiller's cuz of my hip-pains) so i cant think better than this at the moment tho..
presumed action that broke up the system might also be enlightening, but i would propably start with installing new display drivers on the safe-mode, or trying these "last working" things from the bootmenu.

I figured trouble-shooting was too much of a hassle so I formatted the computer and installed Windows again. Thanks guys.

GJ SW!

much simplier!

well, essentially it was the very same i said for my lil bro to do after *I* messed up his comp - never too good idea to be too lazy to reboot while installing new drivers.. and i ended up installing some core-level stuff and also uninstalled something so...
in the end think just repairing it via the installation disk was okay tho, and that even kept the old settings intact. which was a surprise since for me it hasnt done that ever.. hehe