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Windows 7 Pro x64 crashes at welcome screen
Let me start by saying I've been looking all over, everywhere, and nothing is at all useful. The problem is as follows:
After installing the video card drivers, Windows 7 no longer will load properly. The primary symptom is that it loads, gets to welcome screen, then gets to the "Enter your password" screen. If I let it sit for 5-10 seconds, it restarts.
It doesn't matter if I'm in safe mode, if I start it with "Do not automatically restart on error". Nothing makes any difference as to its behaviour. It always automatically restarts and refuses to throw a BSOD.
Restoring a system image from before I install video card drivers works fine, and I can boot into the recovery environment fine, but Windows 7 will not boot with the video card drivers installed.
The only information I have is form one time where I managed to speedily enter my password, and say the error that it threw: It throws up a "Debug assertion failed..." window, then reboots. I don't get a chance to read it, and this window doesn't always come up before it reboots.
Microsoft tech support has been completely useless on this. I am at my wits end and have no idea where to go.
Help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Edit: Oh, and the recovery environment's "Repair your computer" reports that Windows started fine. So Last Known Good Configuration is useless, and the automatic repair tool doesn't see anything wrong.