things ive tried:
with my latest video card drivers installed (8800GTX), i can only log into safe mode. with my drivers uninstalled, i can log into normal mode 1 out of 2 tries without crashing. I've tried old patches, omegadrivers, system restore, full factory restore(would have manually restored from CD but it didn't let me boot from CD)
i clean re-installed the nvidia drivers multiple times and was using driver-sweeper, re-installing on vga mode)
disconnected monitor and turned on to see test, works fine.
cleaned all fans of dust, my case is open and temps are fine for everything, updated bios and mobo drivers,
i haven't been able to find a fix for this, and i dont expect to, but what really is the problem? mobo, vid card, some software, or what? I don't have a 2nd vid card to test with, and I want to know what to buy if I were to replace the part instead of actually fixing it