I think my COMPUTER has crashed! I hope someone can HELP me. For the past two days when I turn the computer on a STARTUP REPAIR box appears, saying"Your computer was unable to start. Startup Repair is CHECKING your system for problems." Then the WORDS "Searching for problems" and a status bar that moves very slowly (on dial-up connection) and today it froze and my PC is not responding to any commands. Even when I turn the power off and turn it back on that STARTUP REPAIR box remains! I purchased this eMachines T3616 Desktop PC with AMD Sempron Processor 3600+ last August 2007. It has Windows Vista Home Basic OS. Last week I began to see STRANGE error messages, starting with "A disk read error occurred." I probably should have acted then but I didn't know it would lead to this!! Does this sound as if my computer has crashed? If it has, what should I do? Please help me with your advice. Thank you so much.

jandal   
I'd take advantage of warranty, right away.Broni...
Really?? Do you think it's that serious? This computer was a gift from my brother and I don't even remember if he gave me the warranty or not! I was hoping it wasn't this bad.
I thank you for your input.    Well, with pretty serious errors, you don't want to tinker with your computer to void warranty.