I dont know if this is wondows related, but windows DID something...

 

ok, so im playing Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic, and i get a little message saying that someone has messaged me on MSN, so i click it, and the game minimizes, like normal. I reply, saying im busy, and then close the message area. Then i relize that the start bar has dissapeared. So i think "oh well, this has happened before" and i do CTRL + ALT + DELETE. It says that SWKotor is not responding, and i do end now, and it closes... but my start bar is still gone. So i click the WINDOWS key, and nothing happens. I do CTRL + ALT + DELTE, and got to Users -> i select me, and then LOG OF. The screen then goes black, and the monitor buttons glow orange, like the system is off. But me keyboard is still displaying the time, and all that. I re-start my system ,and it loads to windows, and the goes into the black screen. They keyboard is still working, because its glowing and the display is saying "LOGITECH"

 

i re-start the pc, and boot from SATA hard drive... same thing...

 

WHAT IS CAUSING THIS PROBLEM!!!!

 

it seems very similar to when i got the new 93.71 driver (whateve rthe latest one is) from Nvidia. it takes forever to load.