boots only in safe mode

[happymouth]

[liljim]

this doesnt really seem like a power supply issue to me, i almost suspect a virus instead. You may be able to do a repair install of XP to get back up. The motherboard may be coming to a slow and painful death but i would try a repair before i started looking at new hardware.

[happymouth]

i have virus protection running, and have yet to have a problem. i can't even run recovery or reinstall because the hardware has started to drop off. it doesn't even see the floppy or cd rom drives anymore.
i actually ran a virus scan about two - maybe three - days before this happened and some clean up utilities, yielded nothing.

[The_Duck]

Hmmm... Can you tell us what exactly you deleted? That may help us determine what is actually going on...

When you boot up, do you hear any beep codes? 1 beep at start up means all the hardware looks good, but multiple beeps mean something is wrong...

We need more info dude...

[happymouth]

i deleted normal programs (not even in program files), and some temp stuff. i even did a system restore, and can see all of that back on the hard drive in safe mode. nothing out of windows or program files deleted.
as far as the posting, i only hear one beep at startup. starts booting into windows and freezes at progress bar, safe mode takes a moment - but it boots in completely.

[icecube]

When items start to wink off and the system is unstable, I would suspect a temperature problem. Check your cpu fan--open the case and see if its spinning. Also check to see that the fan in the powersupply is spining. A real quiet power supply is a sneaky item.

[happymouth]

fans are running just fine, how would i even know the motherboard is going bad? or the power supply is shot? i've never had a hardware problem this bad.