Boot stall/failure

Hi Markg2

You may wish to check out Macrium Reflect as an Imaging tool. Free, reliable and will provide you with a real method to fallback.

Macrium Reflect - Backup and Restore

Not sure why this issue just started but I would get the system up and I would shut down hibernation and in turn Windows Fast Startup as a test. If this fixes you can explorer shutting down Fast Start up while leaving hibernation on.

Open Command prompt (admin)

powercfg -h off

To re-enable both, hibernation and Fast Startup, use the word on instead of off in the command above.

Re question 4. I believe it would be in the system log and it would be time stamped accordingly. (I must not be understanding question, sorry) You could check all logs.

When shutting down windows, with Fast Startup enabled, if you want a fresh start of Windows, hold the shift key down when you click shutdown.


Ken

I run Reflect scheduled daily. With the machine in the problem boot state and the keyboard not reacting I could not get to the BIOS to change the boot order to allow the Reflect boot files that I have on a flash drive to intercept the boot process. That's why I was asking whether it made sense going forward to always have the boot order set to USB first?

I ran the command you suggested. I turned the machine off, on and it again exhibited the same condition at boot. I powered the machine off, unplugged the docking station, powered on and no problem. There is clearly 'something' going on between the docking station or one of its USB connected items and the OS. Since there are 6 filled station ports I'm not looking to process of eliminate given the alternative (for now) of just unplugging the station on boot--UNLESS someone has a bright idea on a quicker way to problem solve the station.

Questions:

1. Why is hibernation not listed on power options? I've always turned it off in the past on earlier OS' that clearly had the feature called out. I even searched for hibernation and nothing came back?

2. I don't get the 'fresh start of Windows'. I thought that whenever you either soft or hard booted the OS the memory was cleared, all registers cleared, etc?
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[EDIT]: I took a shower, life looked brighter and I attacked the 'hub problem'. I shut down the machine, unplugged all USB hub ports from the Anker and powered on successfully. I then followed the same procedure adding a USB hub device one at a time and specifically shutting down the machine not restarting each time. The machine booted successfully each time. At this point, after the few questions above are answered I will likely closeout this thread and chalk up the experience up to 'who in the h**l knows' (or cares if the machine remains non-problematic).

Mark

Just a couple of quick responses.

1) I think you will find hibernation under sleep in the advance power options.

2) Here is a tutorial that explains a little about Fast Startup

Fast Startup - Turn On or Off in Windows 10

I recommended the powercfg command as it is fast and easy for people to execute.

Glad your machine is "better". Wish you had found a solid root cause.


Ken

Just to clarify as it was clarified to me. If you do a restart you get what I called a fresh start. If you shutdown it uses the Fast Startup. To avoid this you can press shift key and click shutdown.

Interesting screen shot. I would say normally, however I'm getting to the point where there is no normal, in the screen shot you provided there would be a link to change advance settings. Things like Wireless adapter, Wake timers etc. Maybe it is in the screen before this screen.

Last question, are you signed in as admin?

Ken