A hardware problem of some kind. I gave it to someone to work on and they
wiped my system. They said they couldn't figure it out. So after awhile I
tried reinstalling windows with my recovery dvd and I got it to work. But
now I can't perform updates because Windows update can't update. After my
original post I allowed the computer to shut down and attempt to install 7
updates and they all failed to install.
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