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Sunday, 06 May 2012 15:35

WSOD - White screen of death

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Win7 seems to install and reboots. Then I get a white screen with a cursor in the upper left hand corner. I can move the cursor but nothing else happens.

If I reboot again in safe mode from the HD windows loads but says it cannot finish installing in safe mode. If I reboot in regular mode it's the same thing over again.


Solution 1

If you've installed more than 2GB RAM, try cutting it back to just 2GB.

If this worked, you have a problem related to some AMD64 chips.

More info here:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproui/thread/db44f451-f531-4553-96b7-b29e5388613e


Solution 2

After installing W7 and rebooting I got a white screen.

  1. start W7 in safe mode
  2. in search programs type: msconfig
  3. in tab computer booting choose advanced settings check: number of processors and the maximum memory

I have a dual processor CPU and this did the trick.


try reseting the BIOS

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