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This is a hardware problem and it depends on exactly where it is freezing on the boot process. That you are getting to the point of the setup prompt indicates that RAM and video are working it could very well be the hard drive. At some point it goes out looking for boot devices and selects the first boot device on you list (set in BIOS) that is bootable.
First check your BIOS by selecting F2 (or F11) and go through each screen to bake sure that all the settings there are correct. If your time is way out or the settings appear to have changed or you get a checksum error from the BIOS then this indicates that your BIOS battery is flat. In which case just replace that and re-setup the BIOS.
If BIOS checks out then try booting from another device such as CD or DVD. If you don't have a bootable DVD - say your Windows disks - then get one off the internet. Say a diagnostics CD ir DVD - the images are quite easy to get. You will need to burn it on another computer.
If you can boot the computer then it is either your HDD or the HDD controler. If you have a spare HDD then see if you can install that and install a pocket linux to it and see if that boots. If so then the HDD is definitely dead.
First check your BIOS by selecting F2 (or F11) and go through each screen to bake sure that all the settings there are correct. If your time is way out or the settings appear to have changed or you get a checksum error from the BIOS then this indicates that your BIOS battery is flat. In which case just replace that and re-setup the BIOS.
If BIOS checks out then try booting from another device such as CD or DVD. If you don't have a bootable DVD - say your Windows disks - then get one off the internet. Say a diagnostics CD ir DVD - the images are quite easy to get. You will need to burn it on another computer.
If you can boot the computer then it is either your HDD or the HDD controler. If you have a spare HDD then see if you can install that and install a pocket linux to it and see if that boots. If so then the HDD is definitely dead.
