Solved: I have a winxp problem, possibly malware/hacking?

Hello to all. My problem is somewhat odd, I was playing CS and all of a sudden the game just stops and i hear a strange keening sound and the system hangs. On subsequent reboots, windows will load at the winxp screen, then just reads the hard disk over and over, while emitting the same keening noise. After the winxp logo screen finishes loading everything, all I get is a black screen, and a constant hard drive light, as well as intermittent high pitched noise. I don't think I can give anyone a hijack this log, unless someone can tell me how to boot into safe mode from GRUB. This is a dual boot system with sabayon and win xp. the specs are:

ASUS p5wdh DL
1 Gb ram
1 WD raptor 74
1 WD caviar 320Gb (storage, but comes up as drive C, even
though the raptor is the system drive)
1 NEC dvd drive
1 Plextor DVD-RW
radeon x800xt
500wt power

both hard drives are SATA.

If someone could tell me how to get into safe mode from GRUB that would be great, but any help would be appreciated.

 

Hmm. this is strange. now everything works again, because I'm now posting from winxp, and I read the HJT. I'll post the log, but I wonder what happened.

logfile:

Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2
Scan saved at 5:51:17 AM, on 9/28/2008
Platform: Windows XP SP3 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP3 (6.00.2900.5512)
Boot mode: Normal

Running processes:
D:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe
D:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe
D:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe
D:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe
D:\WINDOWS\system32\Ati2evxx.exe
D:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
D:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
D:\WINDOWS\system32\Ati2evxx.exe
D:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Ad-Aware\aawservice.exe
D:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE
D:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_07\bin\jusched.exe
D:\WINDOWS\RTHDCPL.EXE
D:\Program Files\COMODO\Firewall\cfp.exe
D:\Program Files\Avira\AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic\avgnt.exe
D:\Program Files\Ray Adams\ATI Tray Tools\atitray.exe
D:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe
D:\Program Files\Avira\AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic\sched.exe
D:\Program Files\Avira\AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic\avguard.exe
D:\Program Files\COMODO\Firewall\cmdagent.exe
D:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
D:\hjt\HiJackThis.exe

O2 - BHO: SSVHelper Class - {761497BB-D6F0-462C-B6EB-D4DAF1D92D43} - D:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_07\bin\ssv.dll
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [SunJavaUpdateSched] "D:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_07\bin\jusched.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [RTHDCPL] RTHDCPL.EXE
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [COMODO Firewall Pro] "D:\Program Files\COMODO\Firewall\cfp.exe" -h
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [avgnt] "D:\Program Files\Avira\AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic\avgnt.exe" /min
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Alcmtr] ALCMTR.EXE
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [AtiTrayTools] "D:\Program Files\Ray Adams\ATI Tray Tools\atitray.exe"
O9 - Extra button: (no name) - {e2e2dd38-d088-4134-82b7-f2ba38496583} - D:\WINDOWS\Network Diagnostic\xpnetdiag.exe
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: @xpsp3res.dll,-20001 - {e2e2dd38-d088-4134-82b7-f2ba38496583} - D:\WINDOWS\Network Diagnostic\xpnetdiag.exe
O9 - Extra button: Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - D:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Windows Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - D:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe
O20 - AppInit_DLLs: D:\WINDOWS\system32\guard32.dll
O23 - Service: Lavasoft Ad-Aware Service (aawservice) - Lavasoft - D:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Ad-Aware\aawservice.exe
O23 - Service: Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus Scheduler (AntiVirScheduler) - Avira GmbH - D:\Program Files\Avira\AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic\sched.exe
O23 - Service: Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus Guard (AntiVirService) - Avira GmbH - D:\Program Files\Avira\AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic\avguard.exe
O23 - Service: Ati HotKey Poller - ATI Technologies Inc. - D:\WINDOWS\system32\Ati2evxx.exe
O23 - Service: ATI Smart - Unknown owner - D:\WINDOWS\system32\ati2sgag.exe
O23 - Service: COMODO Firewall Pro Helper Service (cmdAgent) - Unknown owner - D:\Program Files\COMODO\Firewall\cmdagent.exe

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