Computer won't boot after scheduling boot-time scan

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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I scheduled a boot-time scan (using Avast free edition) and then clicked the “Restart computer” button. On the subsequent reboot, it gets as far as detecting my drives, and then freezes. I thought it might just be a delay because it was doing the scan, but I left it for a few hours (far longer than a regular scan took), and nothing happened. I restarted and it froze in the same spot. Any ideas on what is happening or what I can do?

Thanks,
RF

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that has nothing to do with avast you need to get your pc checked out for problems with hardware

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Hi rf1234.

Which OS are you using?
It’s 32bit system or 64bit?
Are you using the last version of Avast! (5.1.864)?

I just scheduled a boot scan a few days ago and worked fine on my system.

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Hi Silk0,

I went into the BIOS settings at startup and changed the boot sequence (I have an old OS (Win98SE) installed on the primary partition of a second hard drive) and got it to come up. I guess that must have cleared the pending boot scan somehow, because after that I could boot to my main hard drive (running WinXP sp2). I still had all kinds of bizarre problems, but I uninstalled Avast and then they went away. The version of Avast I had was 5.0.677.

Thanks,
RF