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Display driver crash to black screen
I just started having this issue within the last few weeks. A friend of mine is reporting similar issues using the 3D Blender app that started around the same timeframe. System works fine on most a...
The key symptom you described—audio continues playing in the background but the screen goes black with no signal—points directly to a display driver crash. The system is still running (your audio keeps playing), but the GPU driver has stopped communicating with the monitor. When Win + Ctrl + Shift + B (the graphics driver reset shortcut) doesn't work, it usually means the driver crashed so hard that it's not even responding to reset commands.