Quote Originally Posted by WolfeTone
Did you try booting up in safe mode.

If this works, try disabling any un-needed services.
Tried booting into Safe Mode, if loads up, but it stops on the blue screen with no user accounts displayed, CTRL-ALT-DEL does not work either, so i cannot get into the basic login page either.

Quote Originally Posted by delstar
Sounds like a hardware failure. Try running a memory tester on it. If that comes back clean, you may be looking at a bad motherboard or CPU
Ran a memory test, and it came up with zero problems, the motherboard is fine also, i took it out of the machine and put it into another machine witch has identical Gigabyte mother board, put CPU power supply graphics card memory etc etc into machine, and it worked fine.

Put the hard drive into that machine as master and still the same problem insist on happening.

Quote Originally Posted by morganlefay
I would while the drive is slaved copy needed data....somewhere off the drive

then try to write to it..check your event viewer for errors

I suspect a failing harddrive



MLF
Tried that also, while it was slaved, i was able to grab files/folders from various location,s and copy them onto another machines hard drive. I was also able to transfer files onto the hard drive also once permission were setup.

No issues in the event viewer, and no errors come up from a full drive scan either..

Quote Originally Posted by nihil
You might give it a quick go without the network card. Strange things can happen when they go on the blink.
OK unplugged the network card, same problem, blue screen with windows xp and logo. No user account displayed, CTRL-ALT-DEL still does not work, but if i press the windows key and the T key, the narrator prompt appears lol

Also when i have the drive slaved i am able to see that the user accounts are still intact, and i am able to browse the Admin folder and the other non admin accounts also.

Thanks for all the ideas boys and girls. Anymore ideas or suggestions, as i would really really like to get this issues solved. Saves just grabbing the needed data and doing ye' ol' format and re-install lol