[awt420]

Im having problem with booting up my computer, once it gets passed the windows xp loading screen it just goes black, you can still see the mouse icon but nothing else.. ive tried booting it in safe mode but it does the same thing,the only thing it does different is you can see the safe mode in the corners... I made a video of it and posted it on youtube so you can see exactly what its doing......http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi9PELO6a8c thx for your time

[-X-]

Hard to say what it is. I recommend you do a repair install.

[Ponch]

Boot from your XP cd, choose Repair, when at the prompt, type "chkdsk c: /f /p" and let it run till finish. Then retry booting normally.

[Tripredacus]

I've had this happen before with a virus or something that cleaned the virus. Did this happen recently? Some virus will hook into the shell and when you remove it, Windows won't be able to start normally. Typically it looks like Explorer.exe isn't loading as your default shell.