Hang on Boot problem

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Dallows

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So yeah, I hope this is the right area to post this. Anyway, every so often on my brothers computer (which is identical to mine) his system will hang when it boots up, right before the windows xp loading screen. all that will be on the screen will be this like white underscore up in the top-left corner, blinking. It never seems to go past that point, even after like 10 minutes. You have to either reboot a few times or do a while shutdown, wait a few, the start it up again. I noticed this happened today with his rio mp3 player plugged into the usb, could there be any kind of conflict happening?
 
It may be trying to boot off the USB flash drive. Reset the BIOS, it sounds like a BIOS setting has gone wrong or been changed. If that doesn't solve it, it could be a hardware issue, like a motherboard or the hard drive.
 
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