Black screen every Thursday, PC quit sleeping this past week.

Don't let your computer hear you, it will start acting up again.

They usually have an extension .dmp

It will be called memory.dmp or minidump.dmp

These are simple instructions to follow to stop BSOD's from auto restart and from over writing dumps.

Press Windows Key +R, type sysdm.cpl, enter, click Advance tab, click on “Setting” in Startup and Recovery section. Remove check mark from “Automatically restart”. Also remove the check mark to Overwrite.

Now you will not be able to do much with the dumps as you need tools. That said a tool us average folk can use is whocrashed and bluescreenview. Here is a link to bluescreenview. Some AV products get cranky with nirsoft. His stuff is good but you have to get from his site.

Blue screen of death (STOP error) information in dump files.

Yes, well sort of.

If you prevent it from auto restarting you can take down information like .sys or .dll file involved and error code. This very well will assist in tracking down issue.

To restart, once info is recorded, you power down and then power on. Currently your system is set for 30 seconds, you could increase. The goal is to get info.

By unchecking overwrite, more files should appear. Are you running any kind of cleaner package that is maintaining system on some sort of schedule.


Ken

Not sure this is a crash. This sounds like a failing device and likely reason you are not seeing dumps.

As a first step power down monitor and PC. I would disconnect monitor cable and reseat. Then I would open PC, disconnect cable to monitor and I would reseat Video card. I would also reseat any power cables that maybe attached. Then reconnect monitor cable and test.

Now maybe AMD released a new driver but it has always engaged me before installing so I'm pretty sure yours would do the same.

When you come back up check the driver version for your card against AMD site.


Ken

Well I wish I knew what was going on, but this PC has been perfectly well behaved since the afternoon I mentioned above. No more BSOD. I can only think that they may have updated the OS so it quit doing this? It wasn't anything that I did.

The only problem remaining, at this time, is the fact that it still won't sleep, which was the original problem last July after the upgrade to 10.

Good news.

So I can't remember where we got to on not sleeping. So....

Go to advance power options and under "Sleep" heading, disable "Wake Timers"

If it does not sleep when you say sleep, in a command prompt(admin) type powercfg -requests

This should list cause.

If it sleeps and awakens next time it awakens note the exact system

In command prompt(admin) type powercfg -lastwake.

If that does not show anything go to event viewer (type in cortana to find app) and look at system logs. There should be an event 107, System resuming from sleep, and closely there after an event 1, wake source. You will need to copy and post both general tab and details tab for the event 1. Thanks to @Bree for sharing these event numbers.


Ken

Well that is progress. Search [Driver] Legacy Kernel Caller yields lots of hits. Haven't had a chance to review second screen pront but I do remember it.

Ken