Bios Hangs, Won't Boot!

Hi, I have a Neo2/P4 combo that has been working fine for about 3 weeks. This morning Windows XP crashed and now it won't boot back up. The bios hangs for like 5 minutes after checking the hard drives.
I've gone into the bios and reloaded the setup defaults. Same problem. Does this sound like a hardware problem? What can I do to help determine where the problem is?
I don't think it is a software problem because it never even makes it to the "starting windows" section.
I've pulled all cards out but my video, and removed all hard drives but my bootable one.
Now what??

Hi,
Unplug hard drive.......
If you can boot up, then it is a disk problem
This could be:
1) Virus
2) Hard Disk BAD sectors
3) You updated a driver, that windows does not accept....
Please post more info, no matter how silly you think.....no silly questions here, just good answers.
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