Windows 10: No splash screen at daily startup

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First of all, to avoid all confusion, the battery I mentioned was the main battery, not the CMOS one, but nevertheless thanks for the advice.

And here is the Sentinel screenshot:



Thanks again.

 

Ok, not the disk. Good.

If the CMOS battery voltage is low, that can stop a PC booting. The reason I hesitate is that there are usually other symptoms. No way to know for certain.

See e.g.
Laptop turns on/off repeatedly, doesnt display anything on screen [Solved] - Laptops - Laptop Tech Support

(I searched for
Laptop starts with black screen, switches off
- plenty of results for you to check)

 

Thank you so much for all your patience and the time you invest in other people's problems, everyone.

 

Open administrative command prompt and type or copy and paste these commands:
1) sfc /scannow
2) dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth
3) chkdsk /scan
4) msconfig (move dot from normal startup to selective startup, in-check load startup items, click services tab, in the left lower corner check hide all Microsoft services, in the lower right click disable all, click apply or ok and do not reboot.)
5) taskmgr (click the startup tab, click the status column so that it sorts with enable on top, right click each row that displays enable and change to disable)
6) shutdown /r
At this juncture you should be in clean boot.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...oot-in-windows
How to perform a Clean Boot in Windows 10 - TechNet Articles - United States (English) - TechNet Wiki


7) powercfg -energy
Please use onedrive to post a share link for the report: C:\Windows\system32\energy-report.html

Please report the results of each scannow, restorehealth, and chkdsk /scan into the forum.
Let us know about any performance changes comparing normal boot to clean boot.

 

There you go,
I completed all the tasks.
First the screenshots:
Scannow:



RestoreHealth:



Chkdsk:




The HTML file can be found here.
Thanks again.

Thanks again.

 

The HTML link using onedrive was not readable. Please find another method to post.

 

Odd, because when I click it, I get taken straight to it.
Maybe if I post it directly instead of in a link tag: OneDrive
Let me know how this goes, please.

 

It seems to be in a notepad type format instead of HTML....it was the same as the first post.

 

Code: <iframe src="https://onedrive.live.com/embed?cid...936EAF6CC431E1D!13472&authkey=ADmx3XKZlY4ecoA" width="98" height="120" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>[/quote] EDIT: What on earth was I thinking of??????

 

OK, now, today I have not managed to start my laptop up yet.
However, after I restarted yesterday after I had gone through all the steps and posted the results, my screen flickers constantly, another headache to be added to the list.
Did I have to switch something back in msconfig?

 

Fortunately I managed to get rid of the flicker, just by restarting in safe mode and restarting in normal mode again.

The boot problem is still there, but it needs a bit of patience.
What I do experience sometimes too (might be related to the flicker problem I had) is that I sometimes have black squares in my browser (Google Chrome) which disappear after a few seconds.

 

In the left lower corner search type msinfo32. Please use onedrive and post a share link into the forum.

 

There you go:
Microsoft OneDrive - Access files anywhere. Create docs with free Office Online.

 

The info in one drive only appeared as a one page file. It may have needed to completely load before saving it. See if you can get it to save with Hardware resources, Components, and Software environment