After boot camp setup, white screen

Hello boys and girls.
So finally I decided I'd benefit from a bootcamp setup with Windows 7.
My setup is a MBP 15" late 2011 running OS X 10.8.5. 240Gb SSD in main hard drive slot with some alternative version of OptiBay, in other words I exchanged my DVD for another hard drive (the original 500Gb SATA).
The thought is to run OS X from the SSD and bootcamp on a 100Gb partition on the SATA disc. The remaining 400Gb should be shared between the two systems so I guess ntfs is the file system to go? Anyways, so far so good..
I used bootcamp to download the required software onto an external USB drive and chose to restart my computer, boot camp stated something about changing boot order and tbh I didn't pay all that much attention, just hammered "OK".
Mac reboots with a blank white screen, nothing happens. Doesn't matter if I unplug USB-drive or USB-DVD, still same wierd error. Googled it and tried a PRAM(correct me if I'm wrong) -reset. OS X is now booting up properly again but now I'm back to square one...
Perhaps I should also mention that ever since my MBP was brand new it have been freezing randomly a couple of times per month, wheel just starts spinning and I have to restart it using power button long press. Some times when it boots up, it has a folder with a questionmark in it, blinking. That too, seems very random and came from the store..
Maybe that's not the same problem and if so, this is about trying to figure out what makes boot camp screw up boot..
Thanks in advance!
Simon.

I do had the same issue with my build in iSight camera, but it did not seem to be related to the boot camp partition
(macbook pro, late 2007 model, OSX 10.4.11 Tiger, BootCamp Partition with XP).
The camera stopped working ramdomly, as mentioned above, not detected by any software or system profiler. The solution was always rebooting, sometimes twice.
When it finally completely stopped working a few days ago I've tried:
- safe reboot
- resetting the PRAM
- resetting the SMC
- rebooting several times
none of it worked. I've tried the camera in BootCamp Windows, but it did not detect it either.
It seems to be a common problem, as I found issues in several forums but unfortunately no solution.
Today I've called apple support, they said it might be a contact problem or a defect iSight.
I wish I had better news. Anyone else with a mor helpful suggestion?

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