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Random Black Screens While Using Laptop
Before I begin, I want to note that my computer, just this past week, got upgraded to build 1607 of Windows 10 and a couple batches of updates installed in the next couple of days. At the moment, I have disabled updates because I am trying to see if I can produce my errors myself in my current configuration.
I have in the past had issues after playing games and coming out of hibernation for my next session. This was before my update to the latest build, so if this continues to occur, I'll address it later. I'll address that in another thread. Yesterday, I had a STOP error playing a Youtube video right after coming out of hibernation. I wonder if it's an isolated incident to something I had to reboot for and again, will address it later. (It hasn't happened yet today.)
The problem that IS continually recurring is the occasional black screen of nothingness. My top row does have a button that can immediately allow a user to black the entire screen, so provided I don't actually push that, what I'm getting is a sudden black screen at random while using the PC (15 minutes ago I was typing an e-mail, and was idle for maybe two seconds reading what I'd typed). The black screen does seem to be temporary; it comes back with a sound like I had just connected something to the computer. My guess is that it was a graphics card somehow disengaging, but my AMD Radeon R7 M2600X (built-in laptop card) seems to be functioning normally. In fact, in the device manager, i see absolutely nothing wrong. Something seems to be unplugging itself, and reinserting itself, over time. And I'm confused.
I cannot for the life of me begin to guess how to address this issue. The black screen issues have never occurred before (nor has the STOP error I mentioned earlier). And again, the errors all seem to be coming with recent updates; this is why I only download updates every few months, not letting the thing run normally. At the moment, the error occurs once, maybe twice a day, and I'm fine otherwise, so it's notthing more than a mere annoyance; however, I don't want to simply sit and pray it will go away. Does anyone have any ideas what I can do here or what I can check to see what the cause is?
Unrelated, while typing the above message, I went to type in the windows search box and it vanished, as if ceasing to exist. Clicking the Start button brought it back, but it's also weird.