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The Driver That Randomly Decides to Quit
Everything's working fine, and then suddenly—your Wi-Fi adapter disappears from Device Manager. Or your graphics driver crashes in the middle of a game, and your screen goes black for a few seconds b...
Hi, random driver dropouts are often power-management or driver stability issues. In Device Manager, open the affected device and disable “Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power,” especially for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and USB devices. I’d also update the driver from the manufacturer, not only Windows Update, and check Event Viewer right after the failure.