Black Screen Before Startup - Help Reading Boot Trace File  

Lets do the basic
Open a CMD window as administrator and type:
chkdsk c: /f
It will say your disk is in use and if you want to schedule to next start = yes
Restart

Ok, here's the outcome:

Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.


A disk check has been scheduled.
Windows will now check the disk.

Stage 1: Examining basic file system structure ...
766208 file records processed.
File verification completed.
Phase duration (File record verification): 6.43 seconds.
13339 large file records processed.
Phase duration (Orphan file record recovery): 0.00 milliseconds.
0 bad file records processed.
Phase duration (Bad file record checking): 0.78 milliseconds.

Stage 2: Examining file name linkage ...
501 reparse records processed.
1127456 index entries processed.
Index verification completed.
Phase duration (Index verification): 23.56 seconds.
0 unindexed files scanned.
Phase duration (Orphan reconnection): 2.33 seconds.
0 unindexed files recovered to lost and found.
Phase duration (Orphan recovery to lost and found): 975.90 milliseconds.
501 reparse records processed.
Phase duration (Reparse point and Object ID verification): 5.71 milliseconds.

Stage 3: Examining security descriptors ...
Cleaning up 4852 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 4852 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 4852 unused security descriptors.
Security descriptor verification completed.
Phase duration (Security descriptor verification): 58.79 milliseconds.
180625 data files processed.
Phase duration (Data attribute verification): 0.86 milliseconds.
CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
36306016 USN bytes processed.
Usn Journal verification completed.
Phase duration (USN journal verification): 188.82 milliseconds.

Windows has scanned the file system and found no problems.
No further action is required.

243084696 KB total disk space.
171135064 KB in 571429 files.
403408 KB in 180626 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
882104 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
70664120 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
60771174 total allocation units on disk.
17666030 allocation units available on disk.
Total duration: 33.73 seconds (33739 ms).

Internal Info:
00 b1 0b 00 b3 79 0b 00 ac 0a 14 00 00 00 00 00 .....y..........
8e 01 00 00 67 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ....g...........

Windows has finished checking your disk.
Please wait while your computer restarts.

Is BIOS up to date?

Megahertz said:

Is BIOS up to date?

Version 3.4 is installed, that should be the latest available update, right?. (ASRock > Fatal1ty X99X Killer)

I checked for firmware updates from the UEFI as well but it says it's up to date.

zinou said:

not necessarily good or bad news.
It means, in my opinion, that something has to be done in the Bios level to solve this issue.

First, your Bios release date is 2018. check for new Bios version.

Second, check the boot order; make sure that none of the data disks are listed in the boot order.
Also make sure the PXE is not listed before the SDD disk in the boot order.

The installed BIOS is the latest available one from the motherboard manufacturer's website (ASRock > Fatal1ty X99X Killer)

In UEFI boot settings, the SSD is the first and only option. I have removed the other disks from the boot order.
I don't know what PXE is, but there is no such option.
Now that I think about it, is it possible there used to be Windows Boot Manager as an option? I only have the disk drives as options now.

Please run:

Tuneup.bat - Click here to go to the BSOD batch repository to download and run this batch file.


DiskParInfo.bat - Click here to go to the BSOD batch repository to download and run this batch file.

V2:
BSOD - Posting Instructions


LOGS.bat - Click here to go to the BSOD batch repository to download and run this batch file.





Open the BIOS > post images displaying the current settings:
Legacy
UEFI native (without CSM)
UEFI hybrid (with CSM)



Download and install Minitool Partition Wizard > click launch > post an image of the results into this thread
MiniTool Partition Wizard Free Edition - Free download and software reviews - CNET Download
MiniTool Portable Partition Magic Brings Easier Disk Management



For share links please use one drive, drop box, or google drive.

Tuneup: Dropbox - tuneup.zip - Simplify your life
DiskParInfo: Dropbox - DiskParInfo.zip - Simplify your life
V2: Dropbox - ROBERTO-PC-(2021-03-09_22-14-21).zip - Simplify your life
LOGS: Dropbox - LOGS.zip - Simplify your life
BIOS screens: Dropbox - Photos.zip - Simplify your life
Partition Wizard:

Looking at Partition Wizard, everything seems to be OK
I would have Win 10 installed in EFI- GPT mode rather than Legacy-MBR.
You can still convert Convert Windows 10 from Legacy BIOS to UEFI without Data Loss

Megahertz said:

Looking at Partition Wizard, everything seems to be OK
I would have Win 10 installed in EFI- GPT mode rather than Legacy-MBR.
You can still convert Convert Windows 10 from Legacy BIOS to UEFI without Data Loss

Well, this solved it!

I ran the conversion and when I opened UEFI settings, Windows Boot Manager was already set as the first boot option. I disabled CSM, saved and rebooted.
No more black screen, it went straight to the login screen!

THANK YOU!!