[ozop102]

The issue is with an office computer with Windows XP. All computers are networked. This one computer has been fine up to yesterday. It would first freeze at the boot screen. I restored factory settings and it now makes it all the way to the log in screen. When u press ctrl-alt-delete to log in, it freezes. Also it displays a "Floppy Diskette Seek Failure" message upon start-up. How can I disable the seek feature? Does anyone have any ideas besides calling the IT department. I could do that but I would much rather learn to fix it on my own. Thanks to anyone that can help.

[Curlyben]

Rather than spending time trying to fix it yourself, which you shouldn't be doing as it's a work machine.
Call your IT dept NOW.
This is why they are there.
Tell them everything that is going wrong and everything you have done to try and "fix" it.

I'm sure your place of work has an IT policy, these normally forbid users from messing about with company property.

[laxplaya495]

Try booting up in safe mode, or hold down shift throughout the whole bootup process SHOULD stop all startup programs from starting