IANAITProfessional, just a gamer. However, it sounds like something is interfering with either Windows Explorer or your graphics driver. If you have interaction with your keyboard/mouse during one of those blue screens, you can use Windows Key+CTRL+Shift+B to restart your graphics driver. If that solves the display issue without a restart, it points to a janky driver imho.
No matter what, I’d do an elevated command prompt and run sfc /scannow and update drivers to make sure no easy fix is there. If it’s still unresolved, try starting in Safe Mode with Internet just to make sure it’s no other drivers at play. If you still are experiencing it then rollback to a restore point from before the problems began. If that’s STILL not resolving it, do a repair install of Windows. If that fails, you’ve probably got hardware issues.
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It happens rarely, not all the time. I think there was some article I saw somewhere about some buggy update MS released and the fix was to roll back the update, but I can’t remember where I saw that article.
I guess I can deal with it for now, because so far, just restarting again fixes the issue.
Never shutdown your computer - just put it to sleep.
Eh, my mobo or GPU or some combination thereof is super bad at sleep. I shut down every night.
I don’t even do that. No rest for the wicked! My computer never turns off, only its displays do.
OMG Think of all that dust!
Also, don’t fans wear out faster if left on constantly?
OTOH I really shouldn’t talk. I leave mine on from the moment I get home from work until I leave for work the next morning. So maybe 12H on and 12H off.
For moving parts like fans and platters, ‘On Hours’ matter a lot. For most of the other electronics and semiconductors, thermal cycling (on/off cycles) are a significant life limiter.
Thanks.
I guess I’ve been lucky lately.
Replaced a few PSUs and motherboards back in the day though, so maybe that has something to do with it then.
