From: lars@beagle-ears.com   
      
   On 2026-02-03, Paul  wrote:   
   > On Tue, 2/3/2026 9:52 AM, Lars Poulsen wrote:   
   >> Several times in the last few days, I have observed this behavior:   
   >>   
   >> I am reading a website using Microsoft Edge on my Windoes-11 desktop.   
   >> Suddenly, my screen goes black for 5-10 seconds, and then re-appears   
   >> looking very unfamiliar. A little poking around reveals that the   
   >> desktop scale factor in the display setting has been changed from 125%   
   >> to 300%. After I set it back (and rearrange the open windows back to   
   >> where I want them), it is still working.   
   >>   
   >> Has anyone else seen that, and what might cause it?   
   >>   
   >   
   > Open the Settings wheel, in the search box enter "Relia"   
   > to find the Reliability Monitor.   
   >   
   > In the Reliability Monitor, there will probably be an   
   > NVidia entry with a driver issue. Video drivers have   
   > a watchdog, that checks that the interface is responsive   
   > to incoming commands. The OS is likely trying to recover the driver.   
      
   The log I see in the reliability monitor display, appears to show when   
   updates were installed. There are no events for the times I saw the   
   event happening. The machine in question is a mini-pc   
      
       MINIX NGC-NR660   
       AMD Ryzen 5 - 6600H (6 cores, 12 threads)   
       Integrated AMD Radeon 660M GPU   
       16 GB DDR5-4800MHz   
       512GB M.2 2280 PCIe 3.0x4 SSD   
      
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   Lars Poulsen - an old geek in Santa Barbara, California   
      
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