Windows 7 random black screen when idle

Posted by Omar on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Omar
Published on 2011-02-09T06:13:42Z Indexed on 2012/04/07 5:34 UTC
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Occasionally, when I'm away from my computer for about 5 minutes, the computer screen will go black and all USB devices (keyboard/mouse) will lose power. Attempting to move the mouse or pressing keys does not 'wake up' the computer.

This only started happening a few days ago but I'm not sure what changes I did could have caused this and I uninstalled programs (one by one) I installed before it started happening, but still having the same issue.

The one thing I noticed different about my computer since it started happening is i've been getting random survey popups from www.insightexpress.com.

I ran Microsoft Security Essentials scan, it picked up some Java related malware, I removed it but still the same issue. I'm running MBAM right now and will run SAS after.

Edit: I just updated drivers for motherboard and video card and ran virus scans, still having the same issue.

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