Windows 10: 1903 Crashes on Restart... Not on Cold Start

Just received the WU 1903 update on an Asus Zenbook laptop. During each reboot the Asus locked up on its boot screen. The Asus logo appeared, but not the circling balls. Eventually it timed out to a black screen of death. Forcibly powering off, and then restarting continued the installer progress. After doing this for 3 installation reboots, the 1903 install completed "successfully".

However... when I now exit from W10 with "Restart" the Asus boot screen continues to fail after several minutes. Notably though, if I shutdown normally, the Asus starts without issue and reaches the login screen in about 8 seconds.

Why is restart different? And what can be done? I'm not fond of forcibly powering off. Thanks!

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5 min delay on cold start between login screen and bg screen


Ok, let the powershell command run overnight
If the command didn't solve the problem, the try these steps in order:

1. Disable superfetch service
   • Empty the following folder c:\Windows\Prefetch\
   • Restart the computer
   • Si ça ne marche pas, passer à l'étape 2;
2. Disable the AppXSvc from the registry: change the "Start" key value from 3 to 4 (see the screenshot)

 

all games crash!

I suggest you run rthdribl > http://www.daionet.gr.jp/~masa/archives/rthdribl_1_2.zip
Increase the window size step by step and watch your vga temps permanently.
What happens?
If it crashes, run at stock speeds as suggested before and retry.

P.S.: When your system locks, does the display signal turn off after a time?
Stuttering sound or no sound at all when freezing?
What X1800XT model do you own exactly?

 

5 min delay on cold start between login screen and bg screen

After overnight looks