Have you tried starting Narrator to help with workarounds? Win+Ctrl+Enter. Do you have a second monitor to attach? It sounds like your video driver is a problem. You could use the Login screen's Power button's Shift-Restart command to get into the Advanced Boot Options to try using Low video resolution with a retry. This would be an even simpler option if you had a boot menu to start from.
Good luck
Robert Aldwinckle
Thanks for the reply and suggestions. I tried connecting a 2nd monitor and can switch between them using Win+P (very strange). As mentioned, I've since removed the video card and am only using on-board video at this point to hopefully simplify matters/drivers. I will try the low resolution option to see if that gets any better results.
EDIT: Tried low resolution mode and seems to be the same result (only larger mouse pointer in low-res). I'm going to try letting it run a bit as described below to see if anything different happens.
On a related note, since it "appears" to be booting into the respective user account (albeit a black screen), if I leave my LAN connected, and leave the PC for awhile, is there a chance it will run Win Updates in the background and the issue might self-correct? Wishful thinking I know, but who knows at this point.