I prefer a graphics boot menu on my new laptop that includes only the essential host PC and Macrium Reflect boot entries. Unfortunately, my new laptop does not display these options, showing only a blank black screen instead.

I do not care for the old text style menu as it only appears in low resolution.

After some troubleshooting, I discovered a partial solution. By enabling hibernation, the graphics boot menu displays properly when starting from a shutdown (not from a hibernated state).

Although I haven’t used hibernation much in the past, I was pleasantly surprised to find that my new laptop starts up from a hibernated state in around 5 seconds. Sleep mode, on the other hand, is nearly instantaneous (<1 second) but uses minimal power.

It seems there may be a BIOS bug at play here, particularly since this issue only arose after updating to the latest BIOS version!

For now, I am not using Insider versions as a native boot option on my new laptop, reserving that functionality for my older device.

​I prefer a graphics boot menu on my new laptop that includes only the essential host PC and Macrium Reflect boot entries. Unfortunately, my new laptop does not display these options, showing only a blank black screen instead. I do not care for the old text style menu as it only appears in low resolution. After some troubleshooting, I discovered a partial solution. By enabling hibernation, the graphics boot menu displays properly when starting from a shutdown (not from a hibernated state). Although I haven’t used hibernation much in the past, I was pleasantly surprised to find that my new laptop starts up from a hibernated state in around 5 seconds. Sleep mode, on the other hand, is nearly instantaneous (<1 second) but uses minimal power. It seems there may be a BIOS bug at play here, particularly since this issue only arose after updating to the latest BIOS version! For now, I am not using Insider versions as a native boot option on my new laptop, reserving that functionality for my older device.  Read More

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