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Argh....my pc crashed last night and will not reboot properly. Hopefull someone knows something that can help.

I was playing Mafia when another program interupted and stopped the game. I addressed the interuption and was about to moveon when I noticed that mafia was still running minimized. I tried to open it again and my system froze. cntr-alt-del, task manager would not shut down mafia or my pc. Reset button. Computer reboots, bios gives a warning about front side bus, etc, reduce it back to factory (remove overclocking). Continue boot up, win2k splash screen and then blue screen flashes and pc tries to reboot. Repeat process with out going back into bios. Continues in same loop non stop.

After many rotations and gleening one word at a time of the blue screen that flashes for maybe 1/4 a second, the error message says:

Starting physical memory dump.
Physical memory dump complete.
Please contact network admin or yada yada yada.

win2k repair disc does not work.

Physical memeory means hard drvie, right?

I am now stumped. I have considered removing hte hdd and installing it as a slave on my second pc to see if I can access the harddrive. I have some files that I dont want to lose, mostly photos. After that, I can reformat if needed, but I would rather not.

Anyone have any ideas on how to get out of this loop? I thnk the blue screen has a very long error number but I cant read it, it flashes too fast. Anyone know how ot freeze this panel to read teh number?

Help please!!! cry: