Won't get past the welcome sign

Hello,

Have you installed a new piece of hardware and then this happened? Or, did you just update a device driver and now this problem? If not, try this, right after you push the power on button keep hitting the F8 key to try and get to "safe mode" and if this works and you can get to safe mode then you may have a driver conflict or a corrupted driver causing the problems. In safe mode go and look at your hardware device listing in the control panel and see if any of your devices have issues. I need more information to be able to help any further than these steps. Hope this gets you going.