My wife kept crashing her Windows 10 NUC after one of the all too frequent horrendously horrible Windows 10 updates. I went through the usual routes of checking for driver updates (there were a bunch as Windows 10 does not play well with Intel Graphics drivers etc). No joy, the box would seize up with a black screen and require a hard power-off to get it going again. Of course this actions did not play too well with the OS and eventually that came down with a bunch of disk errors and a possibly corrupted uefi gpt. So a ‘clean’ install had to be made. I carried this out, restored all her files and thought – job done!
Windows of course did a bunch of their nasty updates and back to square one!
At long last sense took over and I watched what caused the seizure – about 15 minutes of inaction! Power settings, nasty hibernation were all ruled out. I did not even think of a screen saver as it is never set up – big mistake. It is there, and cuts in but there is no way to bring things back to life!
Morals of this saga is DO( set up a Windows 10 screen saver, even if you later disable it! The second moral is of course to totally distrust Win10 updates. 🙁
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