A couple of days ago I left my computer on to download some things while I left for the day. When I came back, it was doing some major system recovery (it was running the XP check disk to "recover orphaned files", etc.). Ever since then, when I turn on my computer, it stalls at the HP start up screen, not starting up windows. Only when I press F1 does it start up (I don't even know what F1 does), but its extremely slow and if I plug my broadband cable into the computer, within a minute Windows tells me that the RPC terminated unexpectantly, and its going to shut down. I know I have a virus, and I managed to stay online long enough for my Norton to update itself, and after I ran a virus-check Norton didn't find anything on my computer. All I want to do is restore my computer, but since it doesn't start up initially unless I push F1, it can't read the recovery disks. How do I get my computer to actually boot up properly, and not stall at the beginning? Pradsz

There's a fix for the XP RPC problem at Microsoft's site. It may help the boot problem also. If not, reinstall XP on top of itself. Larry

some hp machines have a restore options by pressing f10 before the logo boots

you may also want to run the virus scan in safe mode just to be sure there are no viruses

Sounds like the Blaster worm. If the computer has slowed to a crawl online & you can't seem to update Windows or your virus software before you are disonnected,see if this article helps:http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.k.worm.html