Windows 7 random freeze, then freeze while booting.

I have a problem of my Windows 7 randomly freezing.
While it's almost always during game play it sometimes happens while just playing a pod cast in itunes. The only way to get out of it is to hit the restart button on the computer.

Now the computer reboots and I get to the booting screen: "Starting Windows", however the 4 flashy things that make out the windows logo never appears and it will sit like this forever until I hit the restart button AGAIN. Now windows asks me if I want to run Startup Repair or if I want to Start windows normally.
If I choose Startup Repair it will launch the repair program but it never does anything, just gives me the "repairing" message forever.
However if i choose start windows normally it boots just fine.

Anyone seen anything like this and knows how to solve this?

I should add that nothing about the crash shows up in the event viewer.

Originally Posted by rizzon

I have a problem of my Windows 7 randomly freezing.
While it's almost always during game play it sometimes happens while just playing a pod cast in itunes. The only way to get out of it is to hit the restart button on the computer.

Now the computer reboots and I get to the booting screen: "Starting Windows", however the 4 flashy things that make out the windows logo never appears and it will sit like this forever until I hit the restart button AGAIN. Now windows asks me if I want to run Startup Repair or if I want to Start windows normally.
If I choose Startup Repair it will launch the repair program but it never does anything, just gives me the "repairing" message forever.
However if i choose start windows normally it boots just fine.

Anyone seen anything like this and knows how to solve this?

I should add that nothing about the crash shows up in the event viewer.

IMHO, the startup thing is a by-product of something freezing you during operation. Fix that and you'll probably fix the startup problem. Make sure that you are not running ZoneAlarm and Microsoft Security Essentials.... they don't like each other. If you aren't, try booting after using MSCONFIG (from a command prompt) to deactivate programs loading at start-up and any non-Microsoft Services from loading at start-up. If you aren't crashing after that, add things back a few at a time until you find the culprit.

Originally Posted by busydog

IMHO, the startup thing is a by-product of something freezing you during operation. Fix that and you'll probably fix the startup problem. Make sure that you are not running ZoneAlarm and Microsoft Security Essentials.... they don't like each other. If you aren't, try booting after using MSCONFIG (from a command prompt) to deactivate programs loading at start-up and any non-Microsoft Services from loading at start-up. If you aren't crashing after that, add things back a few at a time until you find the culprit.

I'm only running Eset Smart Security.

System specs please. And how long have you been running win 7 before this started happening?

Was this a "clean" insatll or an upgrader?

It was a clean install.
Specs:
Windows 7 64bit RC (Should I upgrade to retail? Will this fix my problem?)
Intel Q9450 @ 2.66
nVidia GeForce 9800GX2
4x 2048MB Corsair 8500C5D @ 800MHz (it says 1066 MHz on the box but I had to lower them as I keep getting bluescreens)
Gigabyte EX38-DQ6 (X38 chipset)

If it help: The sound doesn't stop but loops the last 0,5 seconds until I hit the restart button; keyboard (numlock doesn't respond), mouse (speed-changing-buttons doesn't respond) and screen freezes.

The retail is certainly better than the RC..

Will it fix your sound...........your guess is as good as mine.

I can't guarantee anything

Originally Posted by reghakr

The retail is certainly better than the RC..

Will it fix your sound...........your guess is as good as mine.

I can't guarantee anything

The sound isn't the problem, just a symptom of the freeze, just thought it might have helped identify the cause.

Update: I just did a clean install replacing my RC-version with Windows 7 x64 Professional and I still get the problem.
AND here is the fun part, I get the problem ("freeze at bootscreen") SOMETIMES just when restart my computer from normally from within Windows (I got the before as well).

If you did a "clean" install,. it must be hardware related.

Go to Control Panel > Device Manager and see if there are any entries with a yellow flag beside them.