These solutions are mostly from experience so they are not fully reliable… I'll make sure to post this advice on as many message boards I can to help other miserable souls like myself. After spending a week dealing with this issue and going out of my ever-loving mind, you can imagine my relief. Voila, problem solved! I'm guessing there is was kind of incompatibility between my motherboard (Intel Desktop Board DQ77MK) and this particular Windows setting. So, I went to Control Panel/Power Options and under 'change setting that are currently unavailable' turned off the fast start-up. I tried everything I could think of and all the tips I found online to list just a few: updating my BIOS, reinstalling Windows 10, changing from DP cable to HDMI, reinstalling all my drivers, reinstalling just graphics drivers, plugging and unplugging my Nvidia graphics card several times, cleaning/vacuuming every single component (my comp is as clean as a whistle - looks brand new, trying all kinds of combinations in BIOS settings, etc - nothing worked.Īnd here is how I SOLVED IT! After reading some unrelated advice about the 'turn on fast start-up' function in Windows 10 and reading about how it can cause certain booting problems, I thought I might as well give it a try, nothing left to lose. I had the exactly same problem after installing a new motherboard.

This is the first time I've ever decided to post a piece of advice to any website/message board because I think it would really help a lot of people.

Signal desktop windows