Topic: Black Screen of Death!

[Ken]

My Lenovo keeps getting the BSOD! 

Over on TinyPortal Mick and I have been talking about the Windows 10 updates and I've noted that my Lenovo has been getting the Black Screen of Death. So now, after some testing, it looks like a more likely issue on my laptop is overheating.

Here are some of the comments it the topic:

The download on mine got hung up at 1%! 

Now I'll have to wait until my data 'bonus' time to continue the download. (2A-8A)

Ken.  Dunno what's happening, but noticed there was another Windows 10 update waiting for me yesterday. Wonder if this is in preparation for the big one at the end of this month.

Maybe, but I've not tried to keep up with the news.
Getting ready to do a restart on mine to see if it gets the black screen on its own and not just on the update restarts... it's normally left on all the while.

Well, that was a fun couple of hours! 

Looks as though the Windows 10 update restarts are not the cause of the issue, it is instead the restart that is the issue. So, what is the underlying cause?

My next line of testing is checking for heat problems and I've installed the RealTemp utility to start tracking the CPU cores to see if they might be running hot.