The desktop suddenly won't boot up on my TabletPC...

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> I don't have any idea what the problem could be. At 4:00 this morning
> the computer was on and everything was fine. When I got it out at work
> today I got the screen saying that Vista wasn't properly shut down and
> chose to start it up normally. It looks like everything is going to
> work fine until I realize that the desktop is just never appearing.
> With the TabletPC there is this little application that loads on the
> side of the screen and pops out when you want to write instead of type,
> and that thing launches, but nothing else. It does the exact same thing
> in safe mode. In safe mode I can do a ctr+alt+del and get to the
> options to show the task manager, but that won't even open when it goes
> back to the black screen. I have no idea what just happened, but it
> totally nuked my computer. I took the hard drive out to see if I could
> still access the hard drive, and I could. I don't have access to my
> profile because I don't have administrator permissions on this machine
> at work, but it seems everything is fine.
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> The last update that was installed was SP1 a couple days ago. It was
> running fine and I had no reason to suspect that anything would go wrong
> until it wouldn't boot up this morning. The thing won't even sleep when
> I press the power button, so I know something is wrong. The fan is on
> and the machine is getting hot. Any ideas what the problem could be?
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