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As it turns out, my roommate would just rather throw it out and get a new one. I did as you suggestedwith my extra system, and had to wait the 2 hours for "old and busted" to come back to life.

Thank you for the suggestions. I gave the evil hard drive back to my roommate, and let the computer sit for about 2 hours. It started normally and booted with no errors or problems right into...

There are no power problems in the house that I'm aware of. I'm going to try the CMOS reset.

I have a more complicated version of the same problem. My roommate's computer is a 500MHz Celeron running windows xp, which it has done for a long time. Graphics card isn't the problem. I don't...