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I installed Minecraft on a computer for my daughter. It's an older computer running a fresh install of Windows 7 Pro, all drivers up to date, OS fully patched, running Java 7 update 45, Microsoft Security Essentials, and not much else.

She has the latest version of the launcher (1.3.4) trying to run Minecraft 1.7.2 and there are no mods installed. The launcher runs fine and her profile is loaded. When I click the play button the launcher closes and a window opens with a frame with nothing in it. It says Minecraft 1.7.2 in the title bar but the window is empty.

I opened the log at "C:\%userdir%\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\logs\latest.txt" and it says:

[08:58:53] [main/INFO]: Setting user: ers2005
[08:58:53] [main/INFO]: (Session ID is token:41c71971376740c6bab4e7210403b467:3ee912e96e294c579fdb944da5b68836)
[08:58:54] [Client thread/INFO]: LWJGL Version: 2.9.0
[08:58:55] [Client thread/INFO]: Reloading ResourceManager: Default
[08:58:55] [Sound Library Loader/INFO]: Sound engine started
[08:58:56] [Client thread/INFO]: Created: 512x256 textures/blocks-atlas
[08:58:57] [Client thread/INFO]: Created: 256x256 textures/items-atlas
[08:58:58] [Client thread/INFO]: Stopping!

I'm assuming it's a graphics issue? Her computer runs on-board video which Device Manager reports as being "Intel G965 Express Chipset Family" and again, it has up to date drivers.

Reboot, and reinstalling Minecraft (deleting folders as well) does nothing to solve the problem.

Here's the development console:

[09:16:22 INFO]: Job 'Resources' finished successfully (took 0:00:00.000)
[09:16:52 INFO]: Getting syncinfo for selected version
[09:16:52 INFO]: Queueing library & version downloads
[09:16:52 INFO]: Download job 'Version & Libraries' started (8 threads, 24 files)
[09:16:52 INFO]: Finished downloading C:\Users\Emily\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\org\apache\logging\log4j\log4j-api\2.0-beta9\log4j-api-2.0-beta9.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[09:16:52 INFO]: Finished downloading C:\Users\Emily\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\paulscode\soundsystem\20120107\soundsystem-20120107.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[09:16:52 INFO]: Finished downloading C:\Users\Emily\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\paulscode\librarylwjglopenal\20100824\librarylwjglopenal-20100824.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[09:16:52 INFO]: Finished downloading C:\Users\Emily\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\mojang\authlib\1.3\authlib-1.3.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[09:16:52 INFO]: Finished downloading C:\Users\Emily\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\paulscode\codecwav\20101023\codecwav-20101023.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[09:16:52 INFO]: Finished downloading C:\Users\Emily\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\org\apache\commons\commons-lang3\3.1\commons-lang3-3.1.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[09:16:52 INFO]: Finished downloading C:\Users\Emily\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\io\netty\netty-all\4.0.10.Final\netty-all-4.0.10.Final.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[09:16:52 INFO]: Finished downloading C:\Users\Emily\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\commons-io\commons-io\2.4\commons-io-2.4.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[09:16:52 INFO]: Finished downloading C:\Users\Emily\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\paulscode\codecjorbis\20101023\codecjorbis-20101023.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[09:16:52 INFO]: Finished downloading C:\Users\Emily\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\google\code\gson\gson\2.2.4\gson-2.2.4.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[09:16:52 INFO]: Finished downloading C:\Users\Emily\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\net\java\jinput\jinput\2.0.5\jinput-2.0.5.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[09:16:52 INFO]: Finished downloading C:\Users\Emily\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\java3d\vecmath\1.3.1\vecmath-1.3.1.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[09:16:52 INFO]: Finished downloading C:\Users\Emily\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\org\lwjgl\lwjgl\lwjgl\2.9.0\lwjgl-2.9.0.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[09:16:52 INFO]: Finished downloading C:\Users\Emily\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\net\java\jinput\jinput-platform\2.0.5\jinput-platform-2.0.5-natives-windows.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[09:16:52 INFO]: Finished downloading C:\Users\Emily\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\paulscode\libraryjavasound\20101123\libraryjavasound-20101123.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[09:16:52 INFO]: Finished downloading C:\Users\Emily\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\net\java\jutils\jutils\1.0.0\jutils-1.0.0.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[09:16:52 INFO]: Finished downloading C:\Users\Emily\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\google\guava\guava\15.0\guava-15.0.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[09:16:52 INFO]: Finished downloading C:\Users\Emily\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\net\sf\jopt-simple\jopt-simple\4.5\jopt-simple-4.5.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[09:16:52 INFO]: Finished downloading C:\Users\Emily\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\ibm\icu\icu4j-core-mojang\51.2\icu4j-core-mojang-51.2.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[09:16:52 INFO]: Finished downloading C:\Users\Emily\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\org\apache\logging\log4j\log4j-core\2.0-beta9\log4j-core-2.0-beta9.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[09:16:52 INFO]: Finished downloading C:\Users\Emily\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\org\lwjgl\lwjgl\lwjgl_util\2.9.0\lwjgl_util-2.9.0.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[09:16:52 INFO]: Finished downloading C:\Users\Emily\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\org\lwjgl\lwjgl\lwjgl-platform\2.9.0\lwjgl-platform-2.9.0-natives-windows.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[09:16:52 INFO]: Finished downloading C:\Users\Emily\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\net\sf\trove4j\trove4j\3.0.3\trove4j-3.0.3.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that
[09:16:52 INFO]: Finished downloading C:\Users\Emily\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\versions\1.7.2\1.7.2.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag
[09:16:52 INFO]: Job 'Version & Libraries' finished successfully (took 0:00:00.272)
[09:16:52 INFO]: Launching game
[09:16:52 INFO]: Looking for old natives to clean up...
[09:16:52 INFO]: Unpacking natives to C:\Users\Emily\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\versions\1.7.2\1.7.2-natives-43030081914359
[09:16:53 INFO]: Launching in C:\Users\Emily\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft
[09:16:53 INFO]: Half command: C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre7\bin\javaw.exe -XX:HeapDumpPath=MojangTricksIntelDriversForPerformance_javaw.exe_minecraft.exe.heapdump -Xmx512M -Djava.library.path=C:\Users\Emily\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\versions\1.7.2\1.7.2-natives-43030081914359 -cp C:\Users\Emily\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\java3d\vecmath\1.3.1\vecmath-1.3.1.jar;C:\Users\Emily\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\net\sf\trove4j\trove4j\3.0.3\trove4j-3.0.3.jar;C:\Users\Emily\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\ibm\icu\icu4j-core-mojang\51.2\icu4j-core-mojang-51.2.jar;C:\Users\Emily\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\net\sf\jopt-simple\jopt-simple\4.5\jopt-simple-4.5.jar;C:\Users\Emily\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\paulscode\codecjorbis\20101023\codecjorbis-20101023.jar;C:\Users\Emily\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\paulscode\codecwav\20101023\codecwav-20101023.jar;C:\Users\Emily\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\paulscode\libraryjavasound\20101123\libraryjavasound-20101123.jar;C:\Users\Emily\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\paulscode\librarylwjglopenal\20100824\librarylwjglopenal-20100824.jar;C:\Users\Emily\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\paulscode\soundsystem\20120107\soundsystem-20120107.jar;C:\Users\Emily\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\io\netty\netty-all\4.0.10.Final\netty-all-4.0.10.Final.jar;C:\Users\Emily\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\google\guava\guava\15.0\guava-15.0.jar;C:\Users\Emily\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\org\apache\commons\commons-lang3\3.1\commons-lang3-3.1.jar;C:\Users\Emily\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\commons-io\commons-io\2.4\commons-io-2.4.jar;C:\Users\Emily\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\net\java\jinput\jinput\2.0.5\jinput-2.0.5.jar;C:\Users\Emily\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\net\java\jutils\jutils\1.0.0\jutils-1.0.0.jar;C:\Users\Emily\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\google\code\gson\gson\2.2.4\gson-2.2.4.jar;C:\Users\Emily\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\mojang\authlib\1.3\authlib-1.3.jar;C:\Users\Emily\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\org\apache\logging\log4j\log4j-api\2.0-beta9\log4j-api-2.0-beta9.jar;C:\Users\Emily\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\org\apache\logging\log4j\log4j-core\2.0-beta9\log4j-core-2.0-beta9.jar;C:\Users\Emily\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\org\lwjgl\lwjgl\lwjgl\2.9.0\lwjgl-2.9.0.jar;C:\Users\Emily\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\org\lwjgl\lwjgl\lwjgl_util\2.9.0\lwjgl_util-2.9.0.jar;C:\Users\Emily\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\versions\1.7.2\1.7.2.jar net.minecraft.client.main.Main
[09:16:54 INFO]: Client> [09:16:54] [main/INFO]: Setting user: ers2005
[09:16:54 INFO]: Client> [09:16:54] [main/INFO]: (Session ID is token:bfb4dc26affb4138b50bd5d58620fc7c:3ee912e96e294c579fdb944da5b68836)
[09:16:55 INFO]: Client> [09:16:55] [Client thread/INFO]: LWJGL Version: 2.9.0
[09:16:56 INFO]: Client> [09:16:56] [Client thread/INFO]: Reloading ResourceManager: Default
[09:16:56 INFO]: Client>
[09:16:56 INFO]: Client> Starting up SoundSystem...
[09:16:56 INFO]: Client> Initializing LWJGL OpenAL
[09:16:56 INFO]: Client> (The LWJGL binding of OpenAL. For more information, see http://www.lwjgl.org)
[09:16:56 INFO]: Client> OpenAL initialized.
[09:16:56 INFO]: Client>
[09:16:56 INFO]: Client> [09:16:56] [Sound Library Loader/INFO]: Sound engine started
[09:16:57 INFO]: Client> [09:16:57] [Client thread/INFO]: Created: 512x256 textures/blocks-atlas
[09:16:58 INFO]: Client> [09:16:58] [Client thread/INFO]: Created: 256x256 textures/items-atlas


It sits here doing nothing.....forever. When I manually close the game window, the launcher is open and this is added to the development console above:

[09:18:28 INFO]: Client> SoundSystem shutting down...
[09:18:28 INFO]: Client> Author: Paul Lamb, www.paulscode.com
[09:18:28 INFO]: Client>
[09:18:28 INFO]: Game ended with no troubles detected (exit code 0)
[09:18:28 INFO]: Deleting C:\Users\Emily\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\versions\1.7.2\1.7.2-natives-43030081914359
[09:18:28 WARN]: Couldn't delete C:\Users\Emily\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\versions\1.7.2\1.7.2-natives-43030081914359 - scheduling for deletion upon exit

The Intel G965 Express Chipset Family video card is notorious for causing problems with minecraft. Only fix i know of is to use a different video card. Sorry. If you have a dedicated card, try making minecraft use that.