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windows 7 home premium 7600 freezes on restart - windows 7 four panes
Upgraded from XP to 7 Home Edition on a Dell 400 XPS with 4 gB ram; 500 gB hard drive; and a Diamond HD 6450 gaming card. The install was a custom and during restart - we went past windows is starting screen - to the blank screen with arrow - and then to the Windows logo screen and it freezes here before the welcome screen and the login icon.
Ran windows update and the computer restarted OK. Did a shut down and then a restart - same problem as above.
Did multiple repairs using F8 - no luck. Did safe mode and all applications work fine. Did a restart and same problem.
Did a restore and the computer booted normally. After a shutdown and start up - same problem as above.
Did a registry scan and optimizer - no change in startup.
Did a restore and windows booted normally. Upon shut down and start up same problem.
Did a malwarbytes scan and 370 objects were removed (included windows.old files). Deleted the objects and did a restart. Computer restarted OK in normal mode. Did a shutdown and startup and the same problem existed.
Suspected the driver for the HD 6450. Went to diamond's website and downloaded the current driver for Windows 7 32 bit. We have the CD for the HD 6450 game card that remains available.
When trying to load an on-line game which worked fine with XP - an driver error after initializing .