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   On Wed, 2/4/2026 6:29 PM, Lars Poulsen wrote:   
   > 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   
   >   
      
   The only other driver, besides the AMD GPU driver on your box,   
   would be the fall-back Microsoft Basic Display Adapter driver.   
      
   During a VPU recovery, the original driver should be the   
   preferred one to restore. Something would have to be pretty   
   broken, for any other driver to be substituted. And it's just   
   a guess on my part, that the scale would get set to 300% while   
   this is going on. I just don't see the progression being   
   all that possible/practical. Unless they've modified the graphics   
   recovery approach.   
      
   The Mini PCs are great, when they are working.   
      
   Whereas, when stuff starts to break on a computer, that's   
   when you own a full-sized desktop. For example, on my Daily Driver   
   pig here, the iGPU was malfunctioning (potential BIOS memory map issue),   
   and by plugging in a video card (currently a 1650), I was able to   
   make a slightly more robust computer out of it.   
      
   If I need to test an AMD GPU configuration, I have a video card-less   
   "Spare PC" that has the AMD iGPU as the only video. And that is the   
   situation, because the computer case metal-work, does not allow   
   double or triple-slot wide video cards to be installed. I would   
   have to take the PC all apart, hammer the shit out of the piece of   
   metal that is in the way, then put all the parts back. The reason   
   for removing hardware, is any time a PC case goes into the shop, you   
   could get metal filings floating around inside and they could short   
   out the tiny components on the motherboard. As a result, that particular   
   PC is my iGPU test platform.   
      
   And the only reason such a spare PC exists here, is I had to buy   
   an additional identical motherboard, to use for "debug" of my problems   
   here. First, I needed to verify the CPU was good. And it worked fine   
   on the Spare machine. And then I wasn't sending the CPU back under   
   RMA for nothing, as the CPU was Not Guilty. The "left-overs" from   
   debug and test, is the essence of the Spare Machine.   
      
   The daily driver had its Realtek NIC replaced by a PCIe Intel NIC,   
   and the iGPU was replaced by an NVidia 1650. My local computer   
   store, gets batches of "obsolete" video cards, which I buy because   
   they're cheap. My latest acquisition was a GT1030 for $99 CDN,   
   which while not the cheapest video card ever, is a pretty good price   
   for second quarter 2025. Years ago, I swore I would never buy a   
   GT1030 -- how times have changed :-) Any port in a storm.   
      
   *******   
      
   Check the driver version on your iGPU driver. Do Properties in Device   
   Manager and check it out.   
      
   Then visit the AMD site and look for a later driver than that. You'll   
   need a modern browser for the pulldown menu to work.   
      
   https://www.amd.com/en/support/downloads/drivers.html/processors   
   ryzen/ryzen-6000-series/amd-ryzen-5-6600h.html   
      
      AMD Software:          Adrenalin Edition   
      Revision Number        Adrenalin 26.1.1 (WHQL Recommended)   
      File Size              913 MB   
      Release Date           2026-01-21   
      
   The actual amount of files needed from such a giant blob, is likely   
   to be less than 100MB. But they have to ship these blobs because   
   it is fun for them.   
      
      Paul   
      
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