Nightmare

[Shiromagius]

Hrm, interesting. Have you done the standard checks of the Power Supply and memory? I see you have swithced out HDD, so its probably not the instance of the OS install. My best bet would be on the memory... When you load my computer or click the start button, the OS has to move things into mem to display stuff and what not, and if your memory is borked, that would explain the hangups Try some other sticks of ram and see what happens Good luck, keep us updated

[M31]

Thanks for that. I hope it is the memory and not the chip. I'm going to try another stick of DDR.

Tried the power supply in another PC works fine.