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Originally Posted by PKP
If there's nothing in MSconfig you could check the registry for "services" that run on startup that aren't visible in msconfig. There's "RunOnce" and a few others. Have you checked the registry yet manually? Seearch for 'runonce' and sniff around there and in other sub-branches. If any adaware programs have missed something that is loaded on startup, it would be in the registry under a service.
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There're couple of programs out there that ca do that. I used to run one (I think the name was Kill Process, not sure though), you'll be surprised how many programs you can find running in the background, which are not shown in msconfig. Even if you press Ctrl + Alt + Del (XP)
you can not see these programs. Get one of these programs, and take it from there. If such a program can not kill an process that runs on strtup, locate the unwanted program, reboot in safe mode and delete it manually.
Just give it a try, could be a hardware issue as well......