Jabb3rJaw Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 (edited) Has anyone else noticed an improvement after the last update? I’ve only started my machine about 15 times but haven’t had the black screen issue so far and noticed Ledblinky starts a lot faster. I used to get almost a quarter of the way through my start up video without ledblinky lighting up but now it lights up controls almost right away. Big improvement for me so far but again with the black screen it might be too early to tell. Ledblinky launching earlier is noticeably faster!!! Edited February 5 by Jabb3rJaw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tralfaz Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 Been seeing this exact issue since building mine about 9 months ago. More often than not the machine boots to a black screen. Pressing a button gets past the black screen (plays the startup sound and displays the wheel). I tried switching to Windows Media Player, same results. I then assumed it was one video in particular, of about 30 I have in the startup folder. I painstakingly removed all videos but one and rebooted, repeating with each video. It became obvious no specific video was to blame. I've got a Geekom mini PC with an i3-8109U processor in it. Windows 11. I have Bigbox set as the default Windows shell. Virtually nothing else is installed on the machine (whatever comes with Windows with most of that disabled), Chrome, LB/BB, emulators. That's it. Frustrating, but I guess I'll just remove the startup videos. Not the worst workaround, but the videos were a nice touch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fursphere Posted February 20 Share Posted February 20 I'll add my experience... Both of my standup cabinets randomly go to a 'black screen' on startup, and I have to bump the joystick or hit a key to get it to like.. wake up and then load the main view and start working. But it'll just sit there for hours if I don't touch it. Oddly, my sitdown Daytona USA twin (two PCs running LB/BB) doesn't have this issue. All four use LEDBlinky, standups have Ultimarc IPac Ultimate I/O boards, sit down drivers have IPac-2 boards. All four use startup videos as well. The two standups share a video, and the two driving cabs share a video. I never considered it to be a startup video file problem, but maybe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fursphere Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 Just had this happen again on my ExoDOS install on my desktop PC. No startup video is present on this build. So.. its not the startup video. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damageinc86 Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 I just want to say that I feel for you all that are having troubles with this. Personally, this has never happened to me, EVER. But every time I see a new post show up for this thread it bums me out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tralfaz Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 On 2/5/2024 at 10:34 PM, tralfaz said: Been seeing this exact issue since building mine about 9 months ago. More often than not the machine boots to a black screen. Pressing a button gets past the black screen (plays the startup sound and displays the wheel). I tried switching to Windows Media Player, same results. I then assumed it was one video in particular, of about 30 I have in the startup folder. I painstakingly removed all videos but one and rebooted, repeating with each video. It became obvious no specific video was to blame. I've got a Geekom mini PC with an i3-8109U processor in it. Windows 11. I have Bigbox set as the default Windows shell. Virtually nothing else is installed on the machine (whatever comes with Windows with most of that disabled), Chrome, LB/BB, emulators. That's it. Frustrating, but I guess I'll just remove the startup videos. Not the worst workaround, but the videos were a nice touch. Following up on my own post, I removed all of my startup videos about a month ago. I have not had a startup hang since. For me it appears to have indeed been the videos that causes the hang on startup. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabb3rJaw Posted March 30 Share Posted March 30 Well I thought this was fixed but it’s happened a couple times now. LED blinky still loads faster which is nice but the black screen on start up is still happening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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