Windows 7 freezes after logo while booting

Nacromorpher

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Hello everyone,

I have bought a pretty nice computer a long while ago and everything worked very well. 7 days ago it "almost" crashed/froze while playing Skyrim, with almost I mean I got a lighter and darker blue striped desktop and it went back to the game after 10-20 seconds. I stopped playing to look up some answers, opened Firefox and while surfing, it finally happened again and but this time I had to do a cold reset.
Now it opened the nice menu asking me if I wanted to start in safe mode etc. I chose not to and it stopped booting (Froze/crashed) after the windows logo showed up. Another cold reset later I chose safe mod with internet access and it booted easily.
What happens in detail:
I press the button to boot the computer, everything is as usual than I have the time where I could press F8 to open the options to boot in safe mode... and than the windows logo shows up 4 small light balls fly and form the windows logo and start glowing for a while than the screen goes black (usually it would than show me the log in screen where i can fill in my password and log in) I could leave the computer for 4 hours and it still would be there my keyboard is glowing as well as my mouse.
What i tried:
-)from windows Installation disk:
-Repairing
-Reseting
-not shore any more I have the feeling I did something else

-)after some research, I had a feeling that it could be my hard drive, opened the computer removed the current one, built in my reserve hard drive and installed windows 7 premium on it and it worked it booted nicely and i thought it work so I went on to install all the drivers and after installing my video card drivers (AMD Radeon 7800) had to reboot and it happened again right after the glowing windows logo popped up, as usual. So i popped it open again and removed the reserve hard drive and placed back to usual one, as the error was persistent and not bound to the hard drive.

-) In safe mode:
-uninstalled many Programs I installed lately
-and something that helped, uninstalling my video card drivers

So current state of the issue, I have to boot in safe mode and uninstall the video card drivers every time before rebooting normally because my computer automatically re-installs them. (i know I could remove it in the device manager completely but well it's not about the time it takes to boot I just didn't wanted to remove my computers heart :/ as i have no other to replace it )

So I would bet my left leg that my video card is broken? But since I don't really consider myself as an expert I would like to ask you if you have any ideas what I could do ore what could be wrong?
I relay don't want to buy any new hardware so I do want to know that the issue can't be solved whit other means.

My System:
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bits
AMD Radeon HD 7800
16 Gigs Ram
Intel® Core™ i5-2500 3.30 GHz

Thanks for the help, :)
 

Nacromorpher

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Tanks for your reply, :D

No my UEFI Bios (maybe I should have written it before that i use UEFI?) was not up to date so I downloaded the new drivers, and long story short, sadly it didn't work : /.
Since I have this computer for quit some time could it relay be "primary video set to PCI-E" ? I mean as I said nothing weird happened until last Saturday : / I tried to do this even before but I could never find the right option in the menu? Do you know where i could find this option?
In every menu I open there are some options but never dedicated video card options, at least non that I recognize as such.
 

Nacromorpher

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Well, I got some good new and some bad news, good news is, you where right it was not set to PCI-E, now it is. But the bad news, it didn't solve the problem.

Thanks for for the tip gonna keep that in mind : ) may be useful in the future

 

Nacromorpher

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Changing to my TV monitor didn't change anything, since everyone I know has gaming laptops the only thing I could com up with was a old machine which didn't had the power supply nor the space inside the tower to put my card into it. So I removed the video card from this old tower and here is my question -> would the result be the same if i plug in this one into my computer and see if this works?
 

Nacromorpher

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I don't think so, i have 2 drivers and i tried them both -> the drivers on the dvd very old and the new once but both don't seem to work same problem no difference.
AMD 1600 used a 32 bit windows to see if it changed something, it didn't.
 

Nacromorpher

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OK Been searching for even more solutions on the web, nothing helped but while I was running the computer without closing the side panels I noticed that the GPU vans are still running. (Monitor is still plugged into the GPU, even thou it isn't using it, ore is it? [my motherboard -> Sabertooth P67 B3 Revison duos not have an video output])
-> Drivers of the GPU are uninstalled, using standard VGA.

thx