I'm hoping its not the vid card, because it's only a few months old. The HD I could understand, since they're both pretty old, but I couldn't explain why a fresh install was working for 6 hours. Thx for the reply.
Got a question for you guys. I've got an admittedly rather old system that's been giving me a lot of trouble over the last several days. During startup, the system will post, go through component detection, and get through the screen with Windows XP and the blue progress bar. After that...