System freeze....

[Guest Fred615]

I had done a couple of reboots yesterday to install a couple of USB devices

and then needed to uninstall a printer and then reinstall it. I did another

reboot and my XP Pro system with an Intel Dual core 2.4 Ghz machine only

displays the first DOS screen, the one with the F button functions at the

bottom of the screen. No matter which F buttons I try, it will not show me a

boot screen or anything else. I just sits there and is frozen. I even tried

rebooting with my XP CD in the drive and it wouldn't recognize or react to

that either.

 

What could have gone wrong? More importantly what other emergency boto

methods are available?