Windows 10: Selecting Startup settings in a recovery reboot causes a black screen

Here's what I did in order windows 10Held shift and selected restart in the start menuScreen said please wait... and booted up the recovery screenI selected Troubleshoot, then Advanced Options, then Startup Settings, then clicked RestartAfter restarting, it just had a black screen for several minutes. I tried pressing F4 because I was trying to use Safe Mode. Pressing F4 didn't boot up Safe Mode, so I'm assuming that not only was the display black, but it didn't reach the Startup Settings menu after restarting.I had to force shut down my PC. I booted it up again as normal and it was fine. Bu

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Selecting Startup settings in a recovery reboot causes a black screen

Here's what I did in order (windows 10)

Held shift and selected restart in the start menu

Screen said please wait... and booted up the recovery screen

I selected Troubleshoot, then Advanced Options, then Startup Settings, then clicked Restart

After restarting, it just had a black screen for several minutes. I tried pressing F4 because I was trying to use Safe Mode. Pressing F4 didn't boot up Safe Mode, so I'm assuming that not only was the display black, but it didn't reach the Startup Settings menu after restarting.

I had to force shut down my PC. I booted it up again as normal and it was fine. But yeah, can't do those steps I listed because it caused a black screen. My PC was still running normally during this time. (By this I just mean that fans were on, my cooler was pumping liquid etc)

TYPE OF BLACK SCREEN EXEPERIENCED: The screen itself was not lighting up black, but instead my screen was black because the monitor was in standby (meaning no input was detected by my monitor, so the screen looked like how it looks when it's off)

Causes? Solutions? I reset my computer a couple of weeks ago. I doubt my GPU's drivers are already corrupted, I use NVIDIA and I do a custom install, selecting clean install of my graphics driver and I only install the graphics driver and no other junk drivers NVIDIA provides. If my GPU drivers are somehow corrupt and I need to uninstall them using DDU for example, I do need Safe Mode in order to do so, which as I mentioned I cannot access.

 

Selecting Startup settings in a recovery reboot causes a black screen

Hi, I am Dave, I will help you with this.

After you select Startup settings, then the PC restarts, press the 4 key or 5 key, not F4 or F5, does that get you into Safe Mode (5 is Safe Mode with networking)

 

Black Screen on startup

Hi Sergio,





There is a possibility that the black screen could have been caused by a corrupted file or the concerned could be during the boot process. To isolate the possible cause, we recommend that you follow the steps below:

• Once you are on Start Menu, select Enable Safe Mode. If you can boot through
  Safe mode, we can verify that your computer can still boot up.
• From Safe Mode, you need to performed a Clean boot. This is to isolate other drivers or startup programs that could cause the black screen. To do
  Clean boot, please refer to this link.
• After performing Clean boot and your computer can boot normally, you would need to go to
  Event Viewer. Just search Event Viewer in your
  Search box and select Windows Logs. You would need to check each tab and verify which could have caused the black screen, from there please provide us a screenshot. Base on the screenshot that you will send, we will know what is the
  next step or resolution to provide.

We look forward to your response.