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My wife's desktop flipped out yesterday. When she turned it on it got to the windows splash screen and stays there for HOURS. I can't get into safe mode, or the last known good config, they all stay on the splash screen. I've tried running a chkdsk /r from recovery console and i've tried a repair install. Funny thing about the repair install is that it loads all the files and reboots to begin the install but it just goes back to the splash screen and hangs! my wife decided to save important files all over the damn hard drive so im not really wanting to slap it into another PC to retrieve the files, so does anyone else have any other suggestions before i have to start gutting things?

This might not be the case but I had two systems come in for repair with a similar situation lately. There's been a trojan/root kit going around called Geege.exe and xpx? (? being a replaceable place holder because the root kit renames itself in an attempt at stealth). It comes to the load screen and hangs forever. I too tried repair console, and XP repair and both failed. The customers always want things done cheaply so I gave up and formatted the drives and reloaded the machines.

You can try downloading UBCD from http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/index.html

That's the description of the contents, download link on the menu on the left. It is bootable from the cdrom, might have to change boot options in bios to boot to it. It has virus scanning software on it as well as diagnostic software. Download it, burn the ISO to cdrom and run the virus scanner on her machine. If it passes run the HD diagnostics. Given that you've run a repair from XP and it fails I'm betting your wifes machine has the bug (a bug).

On a side note if it does have the bug connecting the HD to another machine isn't advisable as most likely it'll just infect the other machine and you'll have double trouble. Try UBCD first.

well i started looking into my issue, i gave in and just slapped the drive into another PC so i could yank all the goodies off and reformatted... strange issue..

so i reinstalled the OS, and decided to go check for new drivers on everything. The only driver that had an update was the nvidia driver, so i went ahead and updated it. I rebooted and got a BSOD. so i got into safe mode and uninstalled it then reinstalled an older version from 3 rev's back and everythings fine so far.

its time for some new hardware.. lol..