Black Screen After First Reboot Windows 10 21H2

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illusion

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Hi all,

I am experiencing a black screen on the first reboot after Windows 10 does the copying files, etc steps. The "getting devices ready" screen appears until 10-20% or so then goes to a grey screen and does nothing although it sounds like the cpu is churning via fan noise.

This image has worked on multiple other machines no problem.
A few things I have done:
- Imported Nvidia display drivers into the image, saved it, remade ISO, reinstalled.
- Scaled back a large amount of the component removals
- Force reboot machine after 15 minutes of the black screen and cpu churn going on
Results so far: Same

Any thoughts/ideas?

Thanks
 
Something I am attempting is importing the HWList for the machine and importing every driver I can find even if it says it has a compatible one in the drivers section. Will take some time to process/test but may help narrow things down.
 
On a first review, I don't see anything wrong with your removals. What I would try is undoing all the Event Logging removals to troubleshoot.
Make a backup copy of your preset, edit out the lines between:

<TweakGroup name="EventLogs">
...
</TweakGroup>

Start with a clean image, and apply the simplified preset. This may not fix the image, but tells us what we don't need to worry about.
FYI - KB5014676 Dynamic Update is optional, but isn't really necessary.
 
You say this (original image) works on other systems. Is SecureBoot enabled? SecureBoot doesn't accept unsigned drivers.
 
Hmm, secure boot is enabled on this system although was also enabled on the others. Nonetheless I will try disabling it and run a test.
 
Alright so, secure boot was actually already turned off. However, the Boot Mode was set to UEFI+Legacy with CSM Support. In order to get the Windows10 image to boot I needed to set the Boot Mode to UEFI Only with No CSM Support.

Fairly confusing but for others who may search for something similar here are some searchable items that may appear:
"Black Screen First Boot"
"Windows 10 First boot black screen"
"ntlite post setup black screen"
"Windows 10 getting devices ready black screen freeze"

"Set BIOS to UEFI Only with no CSM Support"
"Disable Secure Boot"

Thanks for helping give me some ideas/paths.
 
This may have also not been an ntlite detail but a detail with using Rufus as I noticed that it is defaulting the target system to "UEFI (Non-CSM)"
 
Hi,

tested your preset, no issues.
Try the ISO in a VM to exclude such issues.

One idea would be the integrated drivers, try without them once, maybe one of them is not compatible.
 
illusion said:
Alright so, secure boot was actually already turned off. However, the Boot Mode was set to UEFI+Legacy with CSM Support. In order to get the Windows10 image to boot I needed to set the Boot Mode to UEFI Only with No CSM Support.

Fairly confusing but for others who may search for something similar here are some searchable items that may appear:
"Black Screen First Boot"
"Windows 10 First boot black screen"
"ntlite post setup black screen"
"Windows 10 getting devices ready black screen freeze"

"Set BIOS to UEFI Only with no CSM Support"
"Disable Secure Boot"

Thanks for helping give me some ideas/paths.
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I have a very similar problem with an embedded Industrial PC Platform (PanelPC), with the legacy style BIOS/CMOS menu.

In my case, my ISO works fine when CSM is enabled, but when I turn off CSM, the image crashes (soft reset) about 5-10% into "Getting Devices Ready".

In this legacy style BIOS, CSM must be disabled for SecureBoot to become enabled.

No BSOD or error of use.

garlin is there some place that OOBE/Panther makes a log file from this stage "getting devices ready" , so that I can debug / troubleshoot the attempt for which driver is causing.
 

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Oh and FYI, obviously when "Getting Devices Ready" crashes mid-way, the system ends up in a reboot loop with the following error:

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