One more thing that may be interesting. I'm not sure if this happened before, because I wasn't paying attention, but since I have this screen going black issue whenever I turn the laptop on after the boot screen, where the dots go around in circle I get that screen again but the dots now go around with less FPS a.k.a it's lagging. And again, not sure if this was happening before, wasn't paying attention.
Sorry, no more ideas - sorry I missed this one. As you've tried restoring an image and have made no hardware change, the only other thing I can think of is either some small hardware problem or as soon as you boot Windows, an update is applied.
So for example, if you restored your image but left the internet disconnected, you might find the problem gone.
Therefore you could try uninstalling relevant the Windows update(s), and reboot with the internet disconnected.
Clearly no one else has thought of anything.. and there are plenty of better informed more experienced people here...
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