Desktop HP Pavillion running Windows 7 freezes on start up

Let's get a few things out of the way right now:
The computer is 3 months old, has never had a problem like this before, no changes have been made to the hardware since purchase and nothing has been downloaded in about two weeks.
there are no CDs or DVDs in any of the drives, and there are no thumb drives or external harddrives plugged in.
So here's the deal:
I went to bed last night around 1 am and left my computer on. I woke up this morning at 8 to find it had reset itself and was sitting at the startup screen just forzen. So I unplugged my external harddrive and reset it. This time it froze on the start up, but offered start up repair.
And hour later it finished 'loading windows files' and told me if was starting windows, but had no logo. The logo slow formed on the screen and was fully visible in 45 minutes.
An hour after THAT it still hadn't loaded.
I reset it again, went through the same process, still windows wouldn't start up.
The third time, despite doing absolutly nothing differently (and having waited over four hours in loading screens this time) I ended up getting some options such as running the start up repair again, completely formatting my harddrive or booting from a previous point in my computers short but healthy history. I chose to boot from the past (I only had one checkpoint to choose from which was from two days ago) and finally figured that would solve my problems.
Nope.
Windows tried to start again, failed and the start up screen came back. The files took an hour to 'load' before the whole thing froze on the start up screen for another hour and a half.
Safe mode won't start up, diagonistic show nothing wrong.
I work from home and really need my computer, so please help me resolve this quickly.

Hello KellyGrady,
Are you able to get the HP logo screen to appear?
If so start up the computer and when you see that screen press the ESC key, this will give you a list of options and one of the options is a diagnostics.
This will check the hard drive and see if there are any problems.
Run the test and post your results.
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