HD works fine, but not sure what else problem could be

Slashley

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I have a Dell Studio 1569 laptop, and the problem is that it loads the Bios but not Windows 7. When it's turned on, everything goes normal until it reaches the starting windows screen, then it would stop loading windows, cut off, and restart the process over again until I am forced to shut it off.
I removed the hard drive and plugged it into my desktop where the same thing was happening. I plugged in another working hard drive into my laptop where it did the same thing also, and System Recovery was not working no matter where I plugged in the hard drive.
So I eventually wiped the laptop's hard drive using the desktop and re-installed win7, and now it's working fine from on the desktop computer, but when I plug it into the laptop again after the re-installation, it is still not working.
I tried removing the RAM, the CMOS battery, the WLAN Card, and my next step is to check the CPU.
Can anybody help me figure out what to do next, or what could be any possible solution.
Thank you.
 
Solution
Wipe it again and reinstall windows with the drive connected to the laptop. Windows will generally not start up on a different machine from the one it was installed on, this is caused by driver incompatibilities (some drivers will be missing that are needed etc.). There is a way to prep windows to move it to another machine, but since you are dealing with a fresh install it would be best just to reinstall on the laptop you will be using the drive with.

Edit: almost every time I have experienced windows crashing during startup it has been because of driver issues...and that sounds like the problem you are having seeing as you are moving it from machine to machine.

senkasaw

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Wipe it again and reinstall windows with the drive connected to the laptop. Windows will generally not start up on a different machine from the one it was installed on, this is caused by driver incompatibilities (some drivers will be missing that are needed etc.). There is a way to prep windows to move it to another machine, but since you are dealing with a fresh install it would be best just to reinstall on the laptop you will be using the drive with.

Edit: almost every time I have experienced windows crashing during startup it has been because of driver issues...and that sounds like the problem you are having seeing as you are moving it from machine to machine.
 
Solution
You need to reinstall when it's inside the laptop. As said, you usually can't just move the drive between systems. During installation it is configured for the main chipset etc.

Too bad you wiped the drive because you deleted the backup IMAGE of Windows and can't restore it now.

After installing Windows you'll also need to install the relevant DRIVERS and SOFTWARE from the support site for your EXACT laptop and Windows version.

If you use a generic Windows version not meant for laptops you might be able to use VIDEO drivers from AMD/NVIDA/Intel (whichever GPU you have) instead of from the laptop site.