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Thought I'd let everyone know I solved the problem and it was a lot easier fix than any of us could of thought. Just for the hell of it, I decided to swap out the SATA cable on my HDD to see if it would fix the problem. When I went to do it, I noticed the SATA1 port was loose and had some play...

Its a clean install.

Ok, so my computer runs fine, no issues what-so-ever, excpet when I first turn it on. I Swear everyday I gotta run startup repair. And if I can actually get it to boot up, it'll work fine till I log in, in which I'll get the spinning circle over the task bar forever, and eventually it'll start...

I was having a very similar problem. I had 4x1GB sticks of DDR2, and I could get as many as 3 sticks to work at the same time, but when i put the 4th one in it would crash every time. What I did was take everything out I could of my computer, my video card, all but 2GB of memory, and my sound...

Anyway I fired up the HP, removed all the crap off of it, and it runs like a dream... I won't be re-installing Windows 7 on it.

Theres way's around that too.... As far as I know if you make Restore discs for your compute,r do a clean install, then stick the restore disc in, you can restore whatever programs you like.

You see at the factory (and i used to work for HP) they pre-install a compressed version of the OS on all the machines. Its all the same version and doesn't require activation or anything. Then they just stick the liscense on for whatever copy of windows it has. What I'm saying at least with...

No I just bought the HP its got a Windows 7 home premium 64-bit license on it. Actually the point of doing this is so that it IS legal, and it has its proper product key. Anyway the upgrade disc is Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit upgrade. Basically its like this: All retail computers come...

Well its an upgrade copy but it will boot and give you the option to do a clean install. yes the same dvd on 2 machines, but with different product keys. What I'm saying is booting the laptop with the upgrade disc, installing windows, and when it asks for the key, I flip the laptop over, get...

I'm glad someone posted this, as I also have a windows 7 upgrade disc from dell. Its for our laptop we just got in October. I just bought a new HP laptop for my parents for christmas, and I was thinking about using that disc to just whipe it and get all the stupid "bloat" ware off of it. On...

Nah from my understanding all discs are the same... they are unique by their version: Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, but Upgrade/OEM/Retail its all the same, only the Key is what makes it unique. I already tried to do a fresh install with the upgrade copy, but it wouldn't take the key, so I...

I need to re-install my windows installation. Long story but I'm pretty sure the initial installion installed with many errors, resulting in memory problems and windows update problems. Problem is my copy of 7 is an upgrade copy. I did a "hard" upgrade from XP 64-bit to Windows 7. Basically...

I"m starting to ponder whether or not my installation of 7 is just corrupt. I haven't had any issues while using it, but I can't get those 2 updates to install, and I'm having that memory issue where I've had to remove one of my sticks to get it to work. I find it an odd issue since Windows XP...

I guess I should of mentioned I did try to install them manually, with no success. Thanks for the advice though, have any more suggestions?

I have another issue. Before I got windows 7, I was this current setup: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ 4 x 1GB Kingston Value ram DDR2800 running in dual channel (While the model number is the same, 2 sticks are low profile the other are normal height) Biostar TA690G-AM2 motherboard ATI-Radeon HD4830...