Gnome fails to start DIRECTLY after rebooting from Window10. [SOLVED]

[jimbux]

On my dual boot Windows 10 and CentOS 8.3 system with the latest linux-NVidia driver installed (via the "NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-*.*.run" method for an RTX 2080 Ti), when I boot into Windows, and THEN restart and boot into CentOS - Gnome fails to start. I just end up with a black screen with the little underscore-cursor in the upper left of the screen.

When I RESTART again, and go back into CentOS, then Gnome starts fine.

Any ideas anyone?
Many thanks!

[BShT]

windows 10 does not shutdown and probably keeps your GPU programmed

try to disable windows 10 hibernation

[sml]

These are my notes on dual booting:

1. Set time to UTC in both Windows and EL
EL:

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sudo timedatectl set-local-rtc no

Win:

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation]
"RealTimeUniversal"=dword:00000001

2. Disable hybrid shutdown in Windows (as Administrator):

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powercfg -h off

Also, disable fast boot in UEFI BIOS

3. See 5.1.2 Chainloading an OS in GRUB manual [info grub2 b g c]

[jimbux]

Thank you both, sml and BShT, that seemed to fix it! For the record, I don't believe my MSI motherboard/BIOS even has "Fast Boot" as an option. I searched pretty thoroughly in the BIOS and couldn't find it, casual google-searching seems to indicate that it's not supported anymore.