The 'freezing splash screen' doesn't seem to happen anymore.Others, it gives me the message Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key Sometimes it gets to the Windows splash screen and freezes (where I do a hard restart). I also decide to change the boot order, as it had my CD-ROM drive as the first in the list, when my SSD should be top of the list (where Win10 installed).
However, I do see a brief message of No hard disk detected! before boot proceeds normally.I decide to go into BIOS and tweak things (turn off splash screen mainly) the splash screen is enabled something I had turned off). I do notice on subsequent boots that indeed default BIOS settings apply (e.g. I accept default settings and things boot normal.To be clear, I have not changed any hardware.I don't know if the Creators Update is responsible for this, or if it was just coincidental timing.The next day (I'm not sure if it was the very next boot after installing updates - I used Creators update the night before for hours though), the first boot screen says 'New CPU Detected!' and prompted me to go into BIOS or to accept default BIOS settings.I updated Windows 10 圆4 to the Creators Update.I'll try to outline the order of events that led me here:
