Alright guys. This is really, REALLY bad and I need your help. Had issues with my computer the other night (running really slow) so I just shut it down. This morning I turned it on to find that it just sticks on the BIOS screen (the one that says press DEL to enter setup.) I don't know what to do - but pressing delete does NOT get me into the setup. It seems to freeze. I have to hold the power button down to turn it off. I have no idea what's wrong - but it's kind of scary - as I've got a LOT of data on there. Any ideas what it could be? As my other post of the off topic section says, Norton's been popping up for the past few days saying it found a trojan, but I don't care what happened with that - it should not freeze on POST...

UPDATE: I just remembered that my mobo has that little post LCD on the back, and it seems to hang on "USB INIT" which I know means USB initialization. However, I unplugged all the USE devices and it still isn't working. I guess the next thing would be to unplug the usb cables from the mobo. We'll see how that turns out.

Reset the CMOS?

What Jakg said. Just unplug your PC and pop open the case. Unhook the power supply cables that go to the mobo and CPU, remove the little battery located on the board, wait about 10 minutes, put the battery back on, and plug everything back in.

I'll do that as a last resort, but I really, REALLY don't want to have to configure everything again. I don't even think that the "USB INIT" reading is of much value. When the computer is off it displays that message constantly since it's set to turn on via USB, so I'm thinking that it may just be showing that message even if it doesn't mean that. It displays a ton of other stuff for a few second before it freezes - including TESTVRAM and stuff -so I want to say everything is working. Doesn't make sense that it would just quit on me without my doing anything. Last thing I did last night was I accidentally pressed the keyboard and it turned on so I just turned it off with the power button.

EDIT 2: Problem solved: Unplugged the power - held down power button for 10 secs - plugged power back in - works! Kind of scary tho - since I don't know why it did that.