Halts at Windows splash screen

My rig is halting at windows start up. I get 4 green LEDS, can start in safe-mode. On start up i get the "windows was not shut down properly" screen and a choice of start modes, choosing safe works OK. Otherwise the machine stops at he Windows XP x64 splash screen but the screen is very dark. There are no disks in any removable drives. The machine was shut down normally yesterday. I did install AVAST home edition a few day ago. Don't want to re-install Windows.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Liquidman

Hey... remember this old story... Well it's turned into a nightmare on this end.
I've RMA's the video card, and the motherboard, replaced the power supply. I've got the same exact error:
safe mode -OK
safe mode with VGA - LOCK UP!
both XP - 32 and 64
I'm left with CPU or RAM. OR... one of the manufacturers sent me the same exact part right back. Oodly the motherboards date and time are as wrong as when I RMA'd it.
Still stuck any help would be greatly appreciated.
L

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Install this on the computer that you are going to hook up the hard drive to: https://www.piriform.com/recuva
I've had pretty good luck with it in getting files off of dying hard drives. Wrap the hard drive in a small towel and put it in the freezer for a half an hour, then take it out and hook it up and run recuva right away. You might get lucky.
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Source:        Application Hang
Date:          7/17/2010 6:16:25 PM
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The program Photoshop.exe version 10.0.1.0 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed. To see if more information about the problem is available, check the problem history in the Action Center control panel.
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My Visual Studio analysis was far more informative. All threads are hung inside of WaitForSingleObject() and WaitForMultipleObjects() calls and the DLL in question appears to be FlexNet-related. I did forget to mention that I also even manually started the FlexNet service in case, for some strange reason, Photoshop was waiting for it to start. That also did not work.
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