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MrL0G1C Aug 20, 2019 @ 3:19am

Does win10 check screen resolution when booting?

I shut down a PC, sent it to someone. So if their max screen resolution is less than 1080p, will windows-10 detect that on boot? (fast boot is enabled)

Last edited by MrL0G1C; Aug 20, 2019 @ 3:19am

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ReBoot Aug 20, 2019 @ 3:39am

Windows 10 doesn't detect the resolution while booting. That doesn't mean they get problems though, the graphics driver will detect the monitor's physical resolution just fine.

MrL0G1C Aug 20, 2019 @ 3:43am

Originally posted by ReBoot:
Windows 10 doesn't detect the resolution while booting. That doesn't mean they get problems though, the graphics driver will detect the monitor's physical resolution just fine.

So the user won't just get a black screen upon OS load then?

ReBoot Aug 20, 2019 @ 3:45am

Originally posted by MrL0G1C:
Originally posted by ReBoot:
Windows 10 doesn't detect the resolution while booting. That doesn't mean they get problems though, the graphics driver will detect the monitor's physical resolution just fine.

So the user won't just get a black screen upon OS load then?

As I was saying

Originally posted by ReBoot:
Windows 10 doesn't detect the resolution while booting. That doesn't mean they get problems though, the graphics driver will detect the monitor's physical resolution just fine.

TehSpoopyKitteh Aug 20, 2019 @ 3:57am

Originally posted by MrL0G1C:
I shut down a PC, sent it to someone. So if their max screen resolution is less than 1080p, will windows-10 detect that on boot? (fast boot is enabled)

First of all, disable Fast Boot. Fast boot in BIOS isn't a good idea. What if you need to get into the BIOS sometime? You won't be able to easily without resetting the CMOS....which will revert your motherboard to its default factory settings.

Last edited by TehSpoopyKitteh; Aug 20, 2019 @ 3:58am

MrL0G1C Aug 20, 2019 @ 4:11am

The gigabyte board has 3 options, normal, fast boot and ultra-fast. I did have to reset cmos after it had been set to ultra-fast which is a bit of a nuisance, but fast-boot on this board still gives a couple of seconds to enter bios and it does what it says - boots really fast like from power on to desktop was about 14-15sec IIRC and it still also allows you to hit f12 and get a boot choice menu.

DevaVictrix Aug 20, 2019 @ 4:36am

How has a question about screen resolution ended up talking abut resetting CMOS?

_I_ Aug 20, 2019 @ 6:00am

Originally posted by Teh Spoopy Kitteh:
Originally posted by MrL0G1C:
I shut down a PC, sent it to someone. So if their max screen resolution is less than 1080p, will windows-10 detect that on boot? (fast boot is enabled)
First of all, disable Fast Boot. Fast boot in BIOS isn't a good idea. What if you need to get into the BIOS sometime? You won't be able to easily without resetting the CMOS....which will revert your motherboard to its default factory settings.

bios fast boot is fine, windows fast boot is not

MrL0G1C Aug 20, 2019 @ 6:17am

Originally posted by _I_:
Originally posted by Teh Spoopy Kitteh:
First of all, disable Fast Boot. Fast boot in BIOS isn't a good idea. What if you need to get into the BIOS sometime? You won't be able to easily without resetting the CMOS....which will revert your motherboard to its default factory settings.
bios fast boot is fine, windows fast boot is not

Why is windows fast boot bad?

_I_ Aug 20, 2019 @ 6:19am

it acts like sleep/standby instead of off
saving everything thats running in to ram to hdd/ssd instead of a clean boot

Cathulhu Aug 20, 2019 @ 6:20am

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-disable-windows-10-fast-startup
It's not bad, but can cause issues.

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MrL0G1C Aug 20, 2019 @ 6:21am

NVM, this explains it well:
https://www.howtogeek.com/243901/the-pros-and-cons-of-windows-10s-fast-startup-mode/

So yeah, I'll let them know to turn windows fast boot off.
Quote:
"Even worse, if you boot into another OS and then access or change anything on the hard disk (or partition) that the hibernating Windows installation uses, it can cause corruption. If you’re dual booting, it’s best not to use Fast Startup or Hibernation at all."

Last edited by MrL0G1C; Aug 20, 2019 @ 6:25am

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DevaVictrix Aug 20, 2019 @ 6:24am

I've got an MSI board, not Gigabyte so it might be completely different...

there are three ways to get into BIOS if the fast boot options are set.

Boot menu lets you choose "settings" which goes to BIOS.
You can hold the "power on" button for 4s which will take you to BIOS.
Lastly, there is a "Go to BIOS" program you can run in Windows, which kind of suggests to me it's something built into Windows that it's actioning...

If MSI do it surely other M/B manufacturers do to?

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MrL0G1C Aug 20, 2019 @ 6:29am

Originally posted by DevaVictrix:
I've got an MSI board, not Gigabyte so it might be completely different...

there are three ways to get into BIOS if the fast boot options are set.

Boot menu lets you choose "settings" which goes to BIOS.
You can hold the "power on" button for 4s which will take you to BIOS.
Lastly, there is a "Go to BIOS" program you can run in Windows, which kind of suggests to me it's something built into Windows that it's actioning...

If MSI do it surely other M/B manufacturers do to?

"You can hold the "power on" button for 4s which will take you to BIOS"
IDK if that work with gigabyte aorus, delete mashing certainly did not work when set to ultra-fast - during which there is no boot menu!.

Thing is - you can save bios profile to HD so it's not big deal to reset CMOS because you can reload settings and I didn't make much BIOS changes anyway, just set XMP, optimal defaults, the rest is good.

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