Windows 10: Windows boots to black screen, no cursor

Windows 10 Prof x64 Sager Laptop, i7 NVidia 980M<br /><br />

This morning I resumed my computer back from sleep and different programs started hanging. So, I decided to restart. I restarted my computer and it stayed on the restart screen for ages, like 30 minutes. So I hard shut down the computer and rebooted.

I decided to reboot to see if the reboot changed anything. Nothing, reboot hang. Tried disconnecting all my peripherals in case a driver was hanging, still no luck, reboot hangs.

So I loaded the WindowsPE bootable USB rescue disck and tried running SFC /scannow, checkdisk, and oher utilities, no errors.

I tried editing the the boot files using a BCD utilty to go to Safe Mode with networking as well as tried using some of the Windows repair utilities included. And now my computer boots, or I think it boots and stays with a blank screen. I've tried connecting a monitor and no luck.

I made a full Windows 10 boot drive so the I could launch the Repair Environment, but somehow my boot is stuck in a hibernate mode When I hard shut down the device by holding the power button, and turn it back on all it will do is resume from Hibernate, so I am unable to boot from the Windows 10 flash drive.

I can turn the computer on, and then I see "Safe Mode" blink a couple times, and then it sits at a black screen. When I press the power button, the computer sleeps, and then I turn it back and it resumes from hibernation. When I hold the power button down, it turns off, and then the same thing happens, resume from hibernation.

I need help, in over my head a bit.

Any advice?

UPDATE: I was able to get rid of the hibernation by interrupting the hibernation at the right time with a hard power down. I'm now able to boot from USB. The startup repair said it was unsuccessful, or so it says, the Startup Repair report comes back 100% clean with all tests "Completed Successfully" with an Error Code of "0x0", which I'm assuming means null.

Now when I try to boot, it ultimately boots I guess and then the "SAFE MODE" tags appear in each corner every minute or so, but the screen remains black.

:)

 

Windows 10 boots to black screen, no cursor

Actually, by doing all this, and with the failure to start of the USB 3.0 controller, I seem to be realizing what is causing this - it's a TP-Link (TL-WN721N) USB wireless adapter!

Originally, it was connected to a USB 2.0 port and all of a sudden I started noticing that the adapter was frequently and briefly disabled through USB. It was disappearing altogether from the "Change adapter settings" option and immediately reconnecting.
I had also a webcam connected to that same controller and I decided to let it run. Every time the wireless adapter was disabled, the camera also stopped working.

I moved the TP-Link wireless adapter to a different USB controller and it had the same behaviour, but the webcam worked fine, because it remained connected to the initial, different, USB 2.0 controller.

I then moved the TP-Link wireless adapter to the USB 3.0 plug and it didn't disconnect any more. However, the issue with Windows rebooting to a black screen started to occur (initial post of mine).

Now, if I remove the TP-Link from the USB 3.0 and reboot the PC, it reboots form the first attempt with no issues. If I plug the TP-Link back to USB 3.0, Windows reboots to black screen and I need to press restart button on PC case. If I move the TP-Link
to USB 2.0, Windows reboots just fine, however it makes that USB controller to stop working for a second, but frequently and randomly.

My Windows 10 comes installed over a previous version of Windows 7. Back under Win 7, none of the above occurred!

Tried to find newer drivers for the TP-Link, but it seems the producer doesn't have anything new. I ever wrote them about the disconnection issues, I didn't get any reply so far...

Any ideas?

 

Windows 10 boots to black screen, no cursor

Bottom-line,

I ditched the TP-Link USB wifi adapter (which, by the way, I believe it also burned one USB port), bought and installed a PCI-Express ASUS wifi card and problem(s) solved. No failure on other USB devices, no problems upon Windows restart (causing a black
screen).

Regards!

 

Do you have installation media?
How are you posting this?
Any issues with a clean installation?

 

From my phone. I do have the media, at this point clean install is not on my radar if at all possible