Windows 7 RTM freezes during boot

I had this problem using the Release Candidate on my computer and now have it with the RTM. During the new boot with the animated windows logo it will just freeze and sit there. Then I'm forced to hold the power button and manually power off the computer and when I turn it back on it says, recovery manager and sometimes that fixes it. I think this is caused by a driver perhaps the video driver. I just installed the latest video driver for my NVIDIA GeForce 8400GS card by Asus. I'm currently trying to get all my drivers fully loaded as it still says I have some that are outdated. I'm using DriverMAX which is great by the way. Today I installed the following drivers that it said were out of date:

Asus NVidia GeForce 8400 gs
Intel(R) G33/G31/P35/P31 Express Chipset PCI Express Root Port - 29C1
Intel(R) G33/G31/P35/P31 Express Chipset Processor to I/O Controller - 29C0Intel(R) ICH9R LPC Interface Controller - 2916

still have yet to download latest drivers for:
Intel(R) 82801 PCI Bridge - 244E
Intel(R) ICH9 Family SMBus Controller - 2930
USB Wireless 802.11 b/g AdaptorIntel(R) 82566DC-2 Gigabit Network Connection
USB Mass Storage Device

I guess windows 7 is using base drivers for these and I have NO UNKNOWN DEVICES.

This freezing during boot does NOT happen every boot nor in safe mode. I restarted the PC today 3 times and it was fine, just did this early this morning. I also noticed that before I restarted with the new ASUS NVIDIA driver it didn't restart just kinda hanged. The hard drive indicator light was on the stopped and the computer was just sitting there in dead silence with the twirling cursor.

Any help, advice is appreciated. Thanks so much.

Specs:

HP Elite M9000t
Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.33 Ghz
3GB of Ram
NVidia GeForce 8400 gs
Widnows 7 Ultimate RTM 32-bit

 

I had the same problem with RC and then RTM. I installed all updates available through WU and here in one of threads and it went away.

 

What did you do in one of threads here?

 

Downloaded updates.

 

It says the computer is all updated.

 

Hopefully someone can help me. I went into Reliability Monitor and see a critical error saying... windows failed to start because of missing system files. I know that's no true as I did a clean install yesterday. It also says "A recent driver installation or upgrade might have prevented Windows from starting."

Thanks to anyone who can help.

 

Try using drivercleaner in safemode to clean out the graphics drivers properly. Try reinstalling the latest one from the nvidia website after.

 

I already have the latest video driver downloaded and have since rebooted like 5 times and have been fine. But how do I get drive cleaner and do that?

 

There use to be a shareware program called driver cleaner. I used it and it worked good. Now they are charging $9,95 for it.

There is an alternative but dont now how reliable it is, use at your own risk.

Scroll down for the link

http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=745

 

On a CLEAN Windows 7 install, before you install any software or drivers, does this issue happen? If so, do you have the latest BIOS installed?

 

To answer that, I installed yesterday and turned on this morning and it did it so I would say yes.

I tried downloading the latest BIOS from HP but it says my system doesn't meet the minimum requirements as I'm not running Windows Vista anymore.

 

Yes—I always love when vendors expect you to run a specific operating system to update your BIOS (thank you Lenovo for not being one of these). FWIW, you might be able to “lie” to the program that updates your BIOS and tell it you are running Vista (though I don’t know if this is safe to do or not).

 

Most BIOSs will update via DOS, and it's actually fairly easy to make a FreeDOS bootable USB stick: http://wiki.fdos.org/Installation/BootDiskCreateUSB

It's what I use to update the BIOS on all my systems.

 

Anyone have any new suggestions as this is still happening and I am now dual booting Vista and 7 and have updated my bios. Only happens every morning after the computer has been shut off for a long time. Vista does not do this.