Xp Freezes at Spash Screen

[xenosoul]

The problem I am having is that window xp pro freezes at the loading screen. I can boot to safe mode fine, but not normal.
I tried formating and installing a fresh copy of windows and it does the same thing. Just wondering if there is a solution to this problem.. BTW its my moms gateway

Athlon 1ghz
256 megs of ram
two 40 gig hard drives..

Thanks in advance

 

[SHAWN]

1st problem. Its a gateway. Did you install it with a gateway recovery cd or a normal xp cd?

 

[xenosoul]

A normal xp.. and that cd has worked ever since i got the gateway... I know gateways are crap, but it did everything my mom needed it to do.. Yahoo games, email, web surfing

 

[SHAWN]

Did you get a chance to install any drivers or software or did it freeze on the first attemp to boot into windows?

 

[xenosoul]

Froze on the first attempt. The bar doesnt even get a quarter inch across the screen. It was working fine up until now

edit*Im now starting to think it maybe a hardware issue. I've jumped around on a couple of different forums (still am) and everyone that had this problem solved it by removing a bad piece of hardware (ie modem, nic card, video..etc)..
I'll have to try booting it up with the bare minimim of hardware and see what that does for me.

 

[SHAWN]

Let us know.

 

[xenosoul]

Turns out it was the keyboard that kept it from loading.. I tried a keyboard from a different computer and that solved it.. Must have gotten shorted out or something.