Crashed, and now wont get past Booting Kernel, no live cd either

Okay, so my install of Ubuntu 6.10 x64 just, died. I woke up to find it very unresponsive and slow, so i figured firefox was eating away at my memory and page file again (it tends to eat up all of my 2gigs of ram after a while of being open) so i clicked on my shortcut to open system monitor and left for work. Came back, it was locked up, so i rebooted. It wouldnt get past the Booting Kernel, or whatever it says, i cant remembe right now.

So i popped in a live CD, it wouldnt load up. Got to the boot part, and then it unpacked the kernel, and then it stopped at the same thing and wouldnt boot the kernel

I think one of my hard drive that had my ubuntu install died, as i dont feel it spinning up anymore when i power it on. So i unplugged it and just used the other two, and still no go. I even tried just one

Any ideas?

Sounds like you've experienced a hardware failure. If you can still boot into Windows, then I'd say the hard drive is kaput.

I don't have experience with Ubuntu - can you load a "rescue mode" from the boot CD and try to run some diagnostics on the hard drive?