Windows 7: Win7 Home Premium never loads completely. Happens in safe mode also...

I have a relatively new HP Pavilion p6610f w/ Windows 7 Home Premium. Nothing has been installed in it but I have tons of documents and pics.

All of a sudden, the thing stops loading. With safe mode and regular mode, it loads to the welcome screen (the light-blue screen displayed just before the logging icons), and it just stops there. The PC is not frozen because I can move the mouse and the caps/num keys turn on and off, but it just stays in the screen.

I tried booting with another Windows DVD I have, and it also gets stuck.

What else can I do?

I was thinking that it could possibly have a virus, but I'm not sure how to run an AV if Windows doesn't load.

Any help is appreciated.



Thanks.

Have you tried a startup repair ?