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Win 7 will run in safe mode, but crashes otherwise

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Roobomb

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Hey all,

I've been battling a problem for several months now, but have been too busy at work to really sit down with it. My computer will run fine in safe mode, but otherwise usually won't even get into Windows 7, or if it does the little blue thinking circle/cursor spins reeeaaallly slowly and when windows does load it runs ridiculously slowly; not like a slow computer, but like I can move the mouse and the cursor moves 5 seconds later. I've stress tested the RAM on memtest 86+ 4.0 and Prime 95 in safe mode and it seems to be OK. The video card works in another setup, can't test the processor or MB on anything else. I've tried several clean installs with nothing hooked up except the video card, one HDD, mouse and keyboard. I've tried starting windows in selective startup mode with no non-essential startup items, but that changed nothing. Sometimes even the install of windows fails. I've run Killdisk on the HDD to see if there was something bad staying hidden on it to no avail...

Any ideas? You folks have always come through for me before...
 
Safe Mode being OK suggests that you have a problem with one of the drivers being loaded. Safe Mode omits loading those. You can track it down in MSCONFIG/STartup by unchecking suspected drivers loading at startup. When you find the culprit, it will then boot OK.
 
I mentioned in the main thread that I've tried disabling startup items in msconfig with no effect, and that this happens on a clean install as well.
 
That suggests a hardware problem. All the variables are in play - mobo, ram, video card, etc.
 
I'm thinking it actually was the video card. I replaced it on my MB with an older gforce 7600 and now everything is running like a charm. I'll RMA this one and see how things go...
 
That's the way to do it! Video cards are often the culprit. Sometimes, if you have on board video, the diagnosis can be quick and easy. Good work!
 
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