Windows Freezes When Booting?
Sep 3, 2011
OK I just built my first computer and everything was beautiful until I used the card reader on my printer. This added the USB card reader on the printer to the boot drive sequence and now Windows 7 freezes about every other time when I do a cold start up (it doesn't affect sleep startups).YES, I did go into the BIOS and disable the printer USB drive in the boot sequence but it did not fix the problem. NO I did not add the Printer card reader to the boot sequence, the motherboard did it automatically for some reason.
Before this bug appeared my system was booting in less than 25 seconds from the time I pressed the start button on the computer - the Corsair GT is a very fast SSD and it makes the OS fly.Here is my system:
CPU: 2600K
Mother Board: AsRock Z68 Extreme 4 Gen 3
SSD: Corsair GT Force 3
HDD 1: Samsung F3 Spinpoint 1 TB
HDD 2: Hitachi 1.5 TB
Optical 1: Asus DVD drive (the $20 one on Newegg)
Optical 2: Lighton Blu-Ray burner
CPU cooler: Noctua NH-D14
Everything on the computer works except for this card reader interference with the booting sequence. It may have corrupted a file, I am not sure - Windows Repair says it cannot fix the issue and that if I "recently plugged in a audio player or USB device, unplug it and restart windows."I would rather not do a clean install and because I have an SSD I do not have System Restore enabled.
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Aug 9, 2009
Windows 7 started to hang on loading screen, just before colored balls show up. So I put in windows 7 cd, made sure boot order was correct in bios, attempted to run repair, but cd loads to a black screen. So i make a bootable usb for win 7 try the same thing but it gets stuck at windows loading files. So I make a recovery cd on another computer with win7 as OS. Same problem. So I do memtest, surface test, everything checks out fine.
This whole time ubuntu will boot fine (Ive had dual boot working fine for over a year). I use ubuntu to get all the files I need of the host machine and use mini tools partition wizard to wipe the hdd thinking maybe i need a fresh install of win7. Same problem persists with failure of cd and usb of win 7. Trying a bootable usb of ubuntu, it works no problem, OS boots everything, flawless.
I continue to try to get windows working because i need it to remote in for work. On oddity is that if it the first time i boot the computer for the day the windows cd boots and i can install the OS but on the first restart it hangs at the same spot as above. This screams power supply issue, so I wipe the hdd again and swap in a new psu. Windows cd boots, installs, loads fine. I install chrome, steam, quicken, rename the computer which requires restart! and then it fails at the same spot. In retrospect I should have used to good boot to install chipset drivers, unfortunately i am yet to be able to get back into the OS via any means. Other things I have tried:
-Boot to cd with HDD disconnected.
-Boot to usb with dvd disconnected.
-Update Bios to latest version.
-Wipe the hdd with minitools, turn off computer, take battery out of mobo to reset cmos. Still no dice.
My problem with all of this is that the whole time ubuntu can install and works fine. I want this to be a hardware issue, but i can't figure it out. Only thing i can figure is its chipset drivers? But I need to be able to install the OS to run the asus installer.
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i want to reinstall my windows 7. i made the cd already. the problem is, when it is asking me to press a button to boot from cd,my keyboard freezes.i cant press anything with it.i can choose the disc in the booting menu,but cant do anything with it.
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specs:
cpu: amd phenom II x6 1050
gpu: sapphire radeon 6870
Heatsink: CM hyper 212 plus
PSU: corsair cs600 builder series
RAM: corsair vengeance 8gb (2x4)
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Samsung Series 3
6GB DDR3 RAM
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Earlier xp but after win7 the booting not show xp at booting time
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also i remember the week before those crashes that twice the screen driver crashed for a second or 2 and then a message popped up about how a monitor driver crash was adjusted, always when i played a certain game that is still in beta so i taught it was the game.
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I just recently upgrade my system's OS from Win XP to Win 7 but I'm facing some problems with my Win 7. Whenever I boot up my system without my GPU installed, it boots up just fine. But as soon as I install my GPU i.e., GT 240, Windows 7 doesn't respond after "Starting Windows" screen or simply fails to boot. I also faced the similar problem while installing my Windows 7. I resolved that one by removing my GPU while installation.
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i removed RAM and installed again. same result
i removed all the datacard to dvd,hdd, and floopy same result.
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I don't think the DVD is the problem as i put it into my mac and it shows the 2.36GB that the windows 7 .iso file is supposed to be. But interesting enough it doesn't show in vista and every time i click on the dvd the computer freezes up.
Also i tried a dvd earlier and it booted up but it didn't work (i didn't realize that the dvd was only 702mb...)
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