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Clean Install - Crashes Every Time
I bought a Shuttle PC with Windows 7 on it. It was working fine, but had no wireless, so I installed the suggested internal Wireless Card (PN20) and it worked great. Then, about 5 hours into using the machine, Windows detected an error and shut itself down.
When I started it back up, it got almost all the way through the boot sequence, then the graphics got glitchy (horizontal blue lines filling the screen) and it froze. I restarted into Safe Mode and tried restoring to the earliest config I could, no luck. I uninstalled everything I had installed that day (Steam, OpenOffice, etc.), no luck. So, last-ditch, I wiped the system and reinstalled Windows 7.
It gets all the way to 'Preparing to use your System for the First Time' or something similar, then the graphics glitch and the system freezes. I've disconnected the wireless card, ran overnight tests on the memory (all good), and reseated the graphics card. I was able to Install Ubuntu 9 without a problem, with full res on the graphics card, working wireless, etc. Then I wiped the system and tried to reinstall Windows 7, still nothing. Sometimes it glitches at the 'preparing' screen, sometimes I just get black and frozen. I can boot into safe mode, but it never finished install, so it just tells me to restart in normal mode.
I've tried both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 7, same results on each. Any ideas?