When booting up the intel splash screen suddenly starting hanging for at least 3 minutes. There were no hardware changes or bios updates. Quick boot is enabled and there is no option for silent boot. My system info is: OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name DAMIAN-1
System Manufacturer alienware
System Model alienware
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 4 GenuineIntel ~1994 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date Intel Corp. MV85010A.86A.0011.P05.0111141737, 11/14/2001
SMBIOS Version 2.3
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = “5.1.2600.5512 (xpsp.080413-2111)”
User Name DAMIAN-1\Damian
Time Zone Eastern Daylight Time
Total Physical Memory 1,024.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 608.10 MB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB
Page File Space 2.41 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys