Windows 7 random black screen when idle
- by Omar
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.