https://forum.asrock.com/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:26:32 +0000 Tue, 13 Aug 2019 16:24:15 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.04 360 https://forum.asrock.com/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=12190 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_images/web_wiz_forums_black.png https://forum.asrock.com/ https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=12190&PID=66592&title=j4205itx-boot-issues-resolved#66592 Author: daveM
Subject: 12190
Posted: 13 Aug 2019 at 4:24pm

Mainly posting in case others get similar.

Following a recent windows update by HTPC built with the above board broke itself. It wouldn't boot and system repairs, recovery points etc were unable to save it.

So I had to rebuild. Then after getting all that done and doing a couple more windows updates it appeared to die again - nothing but a black screen. Except it didn't - I could still ping it and services seemed to be running. The problem was no display either on screen or over RDP.

After about an hour it would eventually show me a screen. Going into Event Viewer showed that the igfx module was dying and restarting 100s of times.

I noticed that the intel drivers were a much newer version than the "latest" shown on the support downloads. So I tried rolling back to the right version. Bad move. That put me into recovery mode again.

Luckily this time a system restore point worked and got me going again albeit with the one hour boot.

So I then decided I'd give the latest firmware a shout. I was still on 1.20 so installed 1.70 and then immediately 1.80.

Booted up, under a minute and a working visible desktop.

So yeah something between the latest windows 10 version update and the latest intel display driver killed my J4205-ITX (twice). But the latest firmware fixes it.

Hope this helps someone who may get into a similar position.]]> Tue, 13 Aug 2019 16:24:15 +0000 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=12190&PID=66592&title=j4205itx-boot-issues-resolved#66592