Blue Screen After BIOS... HELP Please!

I'm new here and would like to thank anyone for their input on this matter. I have an Acer Desktop Model AM5640-U5401 Specs:
- E1260 Intel Dual Core Processor
- 3gb DDR2
- 250gb HD
- Running Vista Home Premium

Here is my problem, it was working perfect but while in the process of burning a dual layer DVD it locked up. Did a hard shutdown (press and held the power button until shutoff). Waited a sec, then powered back on. Now the computer will boot the BIOS just fine... but will blue screen instantly after the BIOS then reboot itself and do this over and over and over and over unless I stop it. It blue screens and restarts so fast I can't read any errors off the blue screen. I pulled the hard drive and stuck it in a different tower and it booted up just fine. Pulled the ram and did one at a time and switched slots while doing it. Unplugged everything except the hard drive and still no boot. Any ideas?? Not to mention this happened less than a week after the 1 yr warranty expired... but thats a whole nother story... so before I take this to someone to fix it... can anyone tell me whats wrong and could I possibly fix it myself? Thanks again!

-tay187

EDIT: Just have been trying different things still... seems that the blue screening is gone, but still in an endless reboot loop. It boots past the BIOS... then asks me how I want to start my computer, you know "safe mode" "safe mode with networking" "start windows normally" etc... i have tried them all. They all make the hard drive work for a sec... then the infamous reboot back to the same screen. I just tried a CMOS reset... nothing still

 

Try starting in safe mode..Also try changing the cd/dvd drive...it could of fried it..

 

Safe mode wont start up... it starts going through all the loading procedures and then it locks up again and reboots. I tried taking the CD/DVD Drive out completely and still nothing. But if I put in a boot CD it will boot into it just fine. I can also boot off of a USB drive into those types of systems... but cant boot from a HD it seems. I tried both SATA and IDE drives and they both end with the same result..... Reboot

 

try removing the reset switch on your motherboards control panel.

 

Forgive me... but where would that be?? Or a general idea of where its at? Thanks

 

Did your computer come with recovery disk ? Or do you have a windows setup disk ?

 

look on your motherboard where you connected the power switch wire, hd led wire, power led wire etc. the reset switch will be on that panel, just remove it and boot. see if that solves your restarting problem.

 

Yes it does and I have retried the install. I completely reformatted my drive and it still wont boot to it. It boots to the CD, as I recall, but not any HD at all... I will try again when I get home today and see what the result is.

 

I looked everywhere on the motherboard... around the power switch... everywhere... cannot find a reset switch or button... thanks for the idea... but any other suggestions? All the capacitors are good from what I can see... I just cant figure it out

 

http://www.pctechguide.com/images/tutorials/MBoard/Power.jpg

It looks like that connected on the motherboard.

 

Ok... not what I was looking for.. I will look again.. so you are saying to try to boot up with it unplugged??

 

Wow... believe it or not... I got it figured out... if you want the details of what I did I will post them... otherwise, thanks for the comments and suggestions even though it was something different....