Originally Posted by soarh

Nah can't find a solution. I checked memory and it was all fine. Something called startup repair came up and said there were various errors then it froze... -- errors? what startup repair do you mean? I am assuming it is the hard drive that was checked with something like CHKDSK at startup. if it has errors, try running your hard drive maker's diagnostic utility or try using Hitachi Drive Fitness Test (see HDD Diagnostic Tools link on my sig).

Going to try factory settings but if it didn't work for you then I dunno :(