My 2nd desktop hangs mid-boot (photo of screen)

[Muse]

It's running Windows 2000. Yeah, I know, antiquated, but it's an old mobo and I seldom use the machine but want to today. It was working seemingly fine a week ago. I turn on the machine today and get this on the screen. I can see no way to get the machine to do anything at this point. I rebooted several times, pressing keys to try to get into the BIOS (delete, F1, F8, F11, etc.) it just goes to this screen no matter what and sits there:

http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/musicant/BootHang.jpg?t=1391883582

Don't know why it says "Capable but Disabled" for the HDs. Can't see the left edge of the screen, as you see, which doesn't help me figure out how to get into the BIOS. Edit: I guess it's saying to hit DEL to get into the BIOS, but that's not working when I hit the reset of try to boot from an off state.

Can anyone suggest something? Thanks!
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Edit: Here's some specs

MSI KT3 Ultra2 mainboard
AMD Athlon XP 1700+ CPU
BFG geforce 6600 GT OC AGP video card
DDR - Crucial/Samsung Original PC2700 2x512 MB for 1 GB
AMI BIOS

In the image above it's pretty obvious that it says EL:Setup, which suggests that it's DEL to get into setup, but most of the time it says o:Setup

Should I open up the case and clear the CMOS?

 

[Dahak]

for the screen itself if you hit the auto adjust on the lcd monitor it will make it fit, my guess is its connected by vga and its over scanning which the auto adjust will fix

The reason why it says SMART capable but disabled is that in the bios the smart monitoring is turned off.

Most likely what is happening is one of the drives might be failing and its preventing it from booting as it hanging there.

 

[ArisVer]

Have you tried to clear CMOS?

 

[bbhaag]

Have you tried disconnecting the secondary drive and rebooting?
Your screen cap looks like it gets past the primary hard disk then the cd-rom loads and it appears to hang when it detects your second hard disk.

 

[JackMDS]

I have a collection of IDE drives from yesterdays on few 939 AMD mobos and they failing one after the other. It seem their time is Gone.

939 Mobos have SATA too and the SATA HDs are still working. Alas XP+ Mobos are the last generation without SATA.

 

[ArisVer]

Have you tried disconnecting the secondary drive and rebooting?
Your screen cap looks like it gets past the primary hard disk then the cd-rom loads and it appears to hang when it detects your second hard disk.

+1

Do this first before clearing the CMOS.

I have a similar system and also had two dead IDE disks.

 

[Muse]

Thanks, guys. I think you probably nailed it, a failed secondary HD. It's my bedtime now, but I'll try disconnecting that HD in the morning.

And thanks for that tip about auto-adjusting the monitor. Yes, it's connected by the VGA input on the monitor.