Recent content by ekdave

... and, the problem came back with the latest feature update (on ~7 Dec 2017). I finally figured out a workaround, anyway--uncheck "Turn on fast startup" in Control Panel > All Control Panel Items > Power Options > System Settings. Now it boots normally. Fast startup was an option I wasn't...

As I was hoping, this problem cleared up with the latest Windows update on 14 Nov.

CPU: AMD Athlon II X4 630 Processor 2.80 GHz Motherboard: Asus M4A88T-M Ram: 8GB SSD/HDD: Western Digital 1TB ATA drive GPU: ATI Radion HD4250 (on the mobo) PSU: Dell Chassis: Dell OS: Windows 10 Pro This is a fairly old machine. There have been no updates published for the bios, mobo, or...

When I power up my Windows 10 PC after a normal shutdown, it gets as far as the Windows logo with the spinning dots, and then a few seconds later the logo/dots disappear and the primary monitor goes to sleep (the secondary monitor stays black, but shows the mouse pointer if I move the mouse...