Windows 10: Win 10 1803 Stuck on boot with black screen and rotating dots.

Discus and support Win 10 1803 Stuck on boot with black screen and rotating dots. in Windows 10 BSOD Crashes and Debugging to solve the problem; Since the beginning of July I have run into a problems booting my Win 10 pro x64 (1803) desktop PC, following some Windows updates and AMD GPU driver... Discussion in 'Windows 10 BSOD Crashes and Debugging' started by keithatwork, Aug 7, 2018.

  1. Win 10 1803 Stuck on boot with black screen and rotating dots.


    Since the beginning of July I have run into a problems booting my Win 10 pro x64 (1803) desktop PC, following some Windows updates and AMD GPU driver updates on Restart it got as far as displaying the Win 10 logo with a rotating circle of dots then the screen goes black and the rotating dots reappear and it stays that way forever, never gets to the logon screen. I was able to recover from the problem after completely powering down the system for 10-20 secs. after which it booted OK, but subsequent Restarts or Shutdowns (without powering down) failed in the same way. I found that enabling "Fast Startup" is a workaround for the problem with Shutdown but is not a preferred solution since I have an SSD and having power everything off when a Restart fails (now about 50% of the time) is a pain in the neck.

    I am aware that this problem has been reported before but none of the suggested solutions I have tried, including temporarily disconnecting all the USB devices has worked. Going back to earlier restore points did not work and I do not want to have do a reinstall Win 10. Since the beginning of July several further Windows and AMD GPU updates have been installed without changing the problem.

    Any help would be much appreciated.

    :)
     
    keithatwork, Aug 7, 2018
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  2. Login from lock screen stuck on circular rotating dots

    The following happens intermittently:

    • I'm working and use the Windows+L key combination to lock my screen to leave for a period (can be short or long).
    • I return and use Ctrl+Alt+Del to log back in.
    • I get a blue screen with a small circle of spinning dots, which goes on indefinitely.
    • I have to hard boot my laptop by holding down the power button for about 10 seconds.
    This started happening only after I upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10 Anniversary Edition. This appears to be a common problem with Windows 10:


    I've tried most of the suggestions from these an other sources, but nothing has solved this issue -- which is very disruptive to productivity and seems to be specific to Windows 10. Please reply with only real solutions.
     
    teancum144, Aug 7, 2018
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  3. KevinAR Win User
    Rotating dots on blue background instead of default lock screen


    A week ago I switched on my PC (Windows 10 Pro 64 bit with ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro graphics card) which had previously been working and on which I had made no changes. It went through the normal boot. There are 5 users and normally it gets to the default lock screen (beach from cave) which I hit enter to display the user list. But this time instead of the lock screen it displayed a blue screen with rotating dots. The dots sometimes made complete circles and sometimes started to make a circle get part way round then jump to the beginning. Mouse+keyboard was not responding. I could access the shared content from another PC. I had previously setup the PC to accept Remote Desktop connection. When I attempted Remote Desktop from my Windows phone my taskbar would load on my phone but the desktop would not and nothing responded. When I tried to access from my laptop it would not respond at all. I logged into safe mode and switched to the Microsoft Basic Display Adapter. This booted but took longer to get to the user list and didn't display the lock screen. Also the user list screen flickered blank and back on. I logged into a user. WIN+L triggered the user's lock screen, but never the default one. Edge displays a blank window but Chrome works correctly. I changed the default lock screen and tried with the ATI driver - same rotating dots. I have a spare nVidia card so I went back to safe mode, changed back to MS Basic Adapter, rebooted into normal mode, uninstalled the ATI software, shutdown, replaced the ATI card with a nVidia card, rebooted - but the same problem of rotating dots on blue background. I ran sfc /scannow which reported some corrupt files which it said it fixed but that didn't cure the problem. I ran chkdsk which found some problems which it fixed. I tried system restore but Windows 10 has never made a restore point! I never got round to making a repair disc. If I load with MS Basic Adapter then let Windows install the correct driver for ATI or nVidia card, the monitor changes to full resolution desktop but the taskbar doesn't appear and there are several black rectangles on the screen, niether mouse nor keyboard work, WIN+L causes the blue screen and rotating dots to appear. Anyone experienced the rotating dots? How did you fix them? All help greatly appreciated. Thanks, Kevin
     
    KevinAR, Aug 7, 2018
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  4. Win 10 1803 Stuck on boot with black screen and rotating dots.

    windows 10 is stuck on cyan screen with circular dots

    Rolled back to previous build 1511 ,now when booting up windows 10 is stuck on cyan screen with rotating circular dots..
     
    DavidWrightYS, Aug 7, 2018
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