Freezing upon startup

i just got a new desktop from my ex a couple weeks ago, it was his step-father's who built the entire thing himself. For about a week now it's been randomly freezing on me and when i try to restart it it freezes again when it gets to the screen with microsoft xp and the blue bar scrolling across right before the desktop loads. I have tried everything but the last few days i can't get passed that screen at all. I have no idea what to do.
Thank you!

There are a few other things you may want to look in to
1. HIPS, if you have a host based intrussion prevention system installed (usually built in to most firewall software) it could be causing your system to crash if a critical process was accedently set to be blocked.
2. Some times the intengrety of your windows kernel can get corrupted which can cause the system to crash when certain system calls are being made.
Although the problem could be hardware related, ie bad memory. If you can I would maybe try to install a second copy of windows on the box to see if that also crashes when loaded. IF it does, there is a good chance you have a hardware issue if not, it may be an OS issue that can be resulved by re-installing windows. Unless you know what you are doing I recommend having someone who does do the windows install if you are worried about losing any data by accedently formatting your drive during the install.

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