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<2 Week Installation: Welcome Hang, Black Screen after Logon, etc.
This is frustrating me out of my mind!
Two days ago, I started getting the "Welcome..." screen hang, where I type my password, hit enter, and it says "Welcome..." and it just hangs. I've left it go for 15+ minutes once, and every 2 minutes or so there's 5-10 seconds of HDD activity then nothing.
Up until today, powering off the computer (because CAD and the button on the case won't work) and powering it back on would "fix" whatever was wrong and the computer booted up.
Well, tonight was a different story.
Got home, booted up the computer, got a Welcome... hang.
Powered it off, tried it again, another Welcome... hang.
Booted in Safe Mode, and did msconfig...
In startup:
There's only 2 items: Microsoft Security Essentials (I left this on) and Realtek HD Audio Manager (I unchecked this to turn it off).
In Services, I clicked "Hide all Microsoft Services" and there were only two that did not have to do with graphics card drivers: Steam Client Service and Mozilla Maintenance Service. I left these two alone.
Rebooted the computer.
Got to the login screen, typed my password, I watched the "Welcome..." for a few seconds, and then I got a black screen with mouse cursor and nothing else. Waited a few months, nothing.
Powered off the computer, went back into Safe Mode, and went into Event Viewer.
I uncheck'd both Steam Client Service, and Mozilla Maintenance Service. I noticed that somehow, Realtek HD Audio Manager somehow re-enabled itself... maybe I didn't apply it properly.
I also decided to check Event Log Viewer... and I found these two things:
And several instances of:Event filter with query "SELECT * FROM __InstanceModificationEvent WITHIN 60 WHERE TargetInstance ISA "Win32_Processor" AND TargetInstance.LoadPercentage > 99" could not be reactivated in namespace "//./root/CIMV2" because of error 0x80041003. Events cannot be delivered through this filter until the problem is corrected.
And these were timed about right for when the system was hanging.The winlogon notification subscriber <GPClient> was unavailable to handle a notification event.
This is driving me out of my mind. This is a <2 week install, it should not be doing this. I don't have anything loading on startup except for Mozilla and the Steam Service (I don't have Steam Itself loading on startup; I manually start that with everything else) and my graphics/sound drivers.