Windows 7 Freezes During Boot

Hi everyone. I had this problem running the release candiate. Yesterday I installed the rtm and it installed fine. I did a clean install and today I turned it on and when the windows logo is doing its animation it will just freeze and not move forward. It did this on the rc and I was unable to resolve this. I believe its a driver issue. Perhaps with my video card. I didn't have drivers installed for the intel chipset software and have installed them now. I'll try and describe the problem the best wa I can. I turn on my pc then I see the new windows 7 animation and then it will just freeze not move on to the new blue logon screen where I enter my password. It doesn't always do this but there is a problem.

Since I'm on my blackberry I can't edit my post. My system specs: Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.33 ghz, 3 gb of ram. Nvidia 8400 gs. My computer is an HP Elite M9000t

MattMJB0188 said:

Since I'm on my blackberry I can't edit my post. My system specs: Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.33 ghz, 3 gb of ram. Nvidia 8400 gs. My computer is an HP Elite M9000t

Matt

You can help isolate if it is a video driver issue by rebooting in safe mode. If it is ok in safe its pointing more towards a video driver. When you get back to the computer find out what driver version you are running.

Also to be sure the driver is installed and working properly go into device manager (type device manager in search) and go to the display tab. You device should be listed and shouldn't have a yellow triangle on it. Also check for "unknown" devices elsewhere

Let us know the results


Ken

Hopefully someone can help me. I went into Reliability Monitor and see a critical error saying... windows failed to start because of missing system files. I know that's no true as I did a clean install yesterday. It also says "A recent driver installation or upgrade might have prevented Windows from starting."

Thanks to anyone who can help.

Any luck anyone? It did twice today. I think its USB related possibly.

Is this a common problem? I notice that windows doesn't always shut down too. It will hang.

Tews said:

If its a system file that is borked, enter scannow/sfc into a command prompt to locate and repair your system files.

Well I was unable to do this, didn't work in command prompt. I think you guys are stumped on this. Its obviously some hardware on my computer because this is NOT A windows 7 issue.