Windows 7 Windows Won't Boot (Repeatedly!)

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Hi there. Earlier today my computer 'froze' (cursor was still active but firefox and then explorer got the shady, frozen screen, screen) and I had to manually power it down. Upon restarting, I hit 'start windows normally' and it then loaded through to the windows 7 logo screen and froze.

Anyways, this is the third time this has happened on this computer. The first time was on the 7th of this month, then I reformatted/installed and had no problems. Happened again a week later and I reinstalled and dual-booted with ubuntu. No problems with that up until today when it happens yet again.

Amongst these downtimes I've tried the startup repair options available on the recovery partition and startup disc except system restore, which every time has said that there were no restore points available (which, stupidly, I never checked or made a manual restore point but I know there should've been points from the months prior to the first incident and from before windows updates). I've also ran windows memory and hard drive tests, memtest86 on each individual stick, and many passes with all installed, as well as western digitals hard drive diagnostic.

So at this point, I'm thoroughly stumped. Does anybody here have any ideas or ways to narrow it down to software or hardware? Thanks in advance.

Specifications:
Windows 7 RC Build 7100 x64
- Ubuntu 9.04 x64 dual boot
EVGA X58 SLI MB
Intel i7 920 CPU
6 GB OCZ 1866 DDR3 RAM
1 TB Western Digital HDD
TX750W Corsair PSU

 

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Okay, I got the new hard drive going and just now while watching a video on youtube it did the freezy thing again. I sat there for a minute staring in anger and then as a last ditch effort unplugged the usb receiver, per Kyle's suggestion. Then believe it or not everything pulled up instantly! Now, the computer is currently too far away for a wired keyboard but surely there's a fix for this?

Can't believe I went through all those reinstalls, surely causing pain to my perfectly working drive, to find out that it was the stupid receiver..

 

[kemical]

Really?.... What about the driver for the reciever..Any updates?

 

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Really?.... What about the driver for the reciever..Any updates?

Don't think so, all I found on their site were the drivers for the mouse and keyboard individually.

 

[Kylethedarkn]

Don't think so, all I found on their site were the drivers for the mouse and keyboard individually.

I got around the problem by using one of these:

 

[tblount]

Can't believe I went through all those reinstalls, surely causing pain to my perfectly working drive, to find out that it was the stupid receiver..

You gained valuable experience and probably have a much cleaner smoother system. Everytime something screws up I learn more.... I rather be ignorant though.

 

[kemical]

You gained valuable experience and probably have a much cleaner smoother system. Everytime something screws up I learn more.... I rather be ignorant though.

Excellent point!

 

[Tepid]

Often it is the smallest simplest of answers that throw us the most.

 

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Often it is the smallest simplest of answers that throw us the most.

I do recognize that you often obtain great amounts of experience in troubleshooting, but when the problem is completely incomprehensible and illogical all you gain is lots of frustration.. Unless of course someone could explain to me how a wireless usb keyboard and mouse can cause a pretty decent computer to crash, and then boot into a blank screen with a working cursor?

Anyways, I still haven't been able to work out consistently when it happens but seeing as I now know more or less what causes it, I'm going to mark this as solved. Thanks for all the replies everybody!

 

[Tepid]

Could be BIOS incompatibility?
Drivers?

Interference?

Bad Keybaord?

Micro Black Hole?