Random Black Screens

TurbulentWinds · October 26, 2017

Here is my issue: randomly ever 30 minutes or so, my computer will show a black screen , my monitor will go to sleep and my fans will turn off only to ramp up to max or go back to normal levels. I was having the same issue but with blue and orange screens (not BSOD) and I reinstalled drivers, BIOS flash, all the normal stuff. Yay. Now I get black screens instead of colorful ones. First of all in Event Viewer, I get a warning stating "Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered" which repeats twice.

Now this error:

Faulting application name: MicrosoftEdge.exe, version: 11.0.16299.15, time stamp: 0x59cda99a
Faulting module name: Windows.UI.Xaml.dll, version: 10.0.16299.15, time stamp: 0xf6706fe0
Exception code: 0xc000027b
Fault offset: 0x00000000004ca736
Faulting process id: 0x1728
Faulting application start time: 0x01d34dc0e811c904
Faulting application path: C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\MicrosoftEdge.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\System32\Windows.UI.Xaml.dll
Report Id: da115878-19fe-4cec-a723-7987ddc394c8
Faulting package full name: Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_41.16299.15.0_neutral__8wekyb3d8bbwe
Faulting package-relative application ID: MicrosoftEdge

Then the Windows Manager tanks:

Faulting application name: dwm.exe, version: 10.0.16299.15, time stamp: 0x7f22d77c
Faulting module name: dwmcore.dll, version: 10.0.16299.15, time stamp: 0x0420e2d3
Exception code: 0x8898008d
Fault offset: 0x000000000004ecad
Faulting process id: 0x16bc
Faulting application start time: 0x01d34dc2f92e6fa3
Faulting application path: C:\WINDOWS\System32\dwm.exe
Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\System32\dwmcore.dll
Report Id: 44c1215f-4426-47da-911d-d6e9c2667759
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

Warning:

The Desktop Window Manager process has exited. (Process exit code: 0x8898008d, Restart count: 1, Primary display device ID: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti)

Then the Windows Manager Error again:

Faulting application name: dwm.exe, version: 10.0.16299.15, time stamp: 0x7f22d77c
Faulting module name: dwmcore.dll, version: 10.0.16299.15, time stamp: 0x0420e2d3
Exception code: 0x8898008d
Fault offset: 0x000000000004ecad
Faulting process id: 0xb00
Faulting application start time: 0x01d34dc2fbe5853c
Faulting application path: C:\WINDOWS\System32\dwm.exe
Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\System32\dwmcore.dll
Report Id: 4f421e68-04fb-4a1e-be55-22635865a796
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

The pattern of the warning then manager error repeats about 8 times then:

Warning:

Display driver failed to start; using Microsoft Basic Display Driver instead. Check Windows Update for a newer display driver.

Error:

The previous system shutdown at 8:45:33 PM on ‎10/‎24/‎2017 was unexpected.

Critical:

The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly.

Based off of this, I would assume that Edge is to fault for my woes as seen by the first of the errors:

Faulting application name: MicrosoftEdge.exe, version: 11.0.16299.15, time stamp: 0x59cda99a
Faulting module name: Windows.UI.Xaml.dll, version: 10.0.16299.15, time stamp: 0xf6706fe0
Exception code: 0xc000027b
Fault offset: 0x00000000004ca736
Faulting process id: 0x1728
Faulting application start time: 0x01d34dc0e811c904
Faulting application path: C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\MicrosoftEdge.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\System32\Windows.UI.Xaml.dll
Report Id: da115878-19fe-4cec-a723-7987ddc394c8
Faulting package full name: Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_41.16299.15.0_neutral__8wekyb3d8bbwe
Faulting package-relative application ID: MicrosoftEdge

So, a few questions.

Is Edge to blame, if so, is it fixable?

If Edge is not to blame, what is?

Has this happened to anyone else?

From the browsing I have done, there seem to be no fixes besides waiting for new updates and magically working again. If there is please let me know.

Specs are below in the first spoiler, please note that I have not been overclocking the CPU for about 1 month, far before this started. XMP is off and everything is at stock besides the SC card.