Hi Jim,

I would tend to think your cpu is toast or your ram is, without
either working properly you'll get that same results. Have you tried
clearing the CMOS yet? BEFORE YOU CRACK THAT CASE MAKE SURE YOUR TOWER
IS UNPLUGGED AND THAT YOU HAVE EITHER A STATIC WRISTBAND ON OR THAT
YOU TOUCH A COUPLE OF DOORKNOBS TO ELIMINATE THE STATIC
ELECTRICITY!!!! Without knowing what kind of motherboard you have
it's hard to say where your CMOS pins are located. Generally they are
around or near the the power/hid/reset/on button connectors pins. I
wish I could upload a photo,it would make this alot easier for you to
find. The CMOS pins consist of 3 in a row, (2) are used all time. What
you have to do is move the little castle looking thing (usually white
in color) ( though mine on my ASUS board are blue) to reset the CMOS
you need to pull off the castle: 1&2 are used for normal running, 2&3
are used for re-setting. Once you've got it set on pins 2&3 let it
stay that way for 5 seconds or longer and then put the castle back to
pins 1&2. re power your tower and start it up. As your computer starts
up you'll see a Splash Screen telling you about your HDD&MEM info
press the "DELETE" key, and this will boot you into your CMOS settings
page. If you have a manual that came with your computer it will tell
you how to set up your CMOS properly. If not, Google it. Somebody,
somewhere has got it on the net.
> I'm not sure what is going on now. A friend of mine loaned me a
> harddrive to see if the problem was with my harddrive or not. The
> harddrive I borrowed had windows xp on it and instead of loading like
> I thougt it would have, that drive seemed to lock up. I let the
> computer run for at least 30 minutes with the message of something
> like windows is now loading. And nothing happened. I shut the
> computer down several times and got the same response each time. What
> would cause a computer to stop running when you change hard drives?
> I'm really confused now.
>
> Jim