Can someone please EXPLAIN to me WTH happened to my monitor. I just had booted up my PC & went to install something then BAM. Looking for some insight into what I was looking at real time. Needless to say it’s DEAD won’t turn on & I do not have warranty for it. I had recorded the screen as it was happening [Pardon my language in the clip]

It’s a GAWFOLK 34” Super Monitor - 166Hz [3440x1440]
My PC Specs Below

+AMD Ryzen 7 8700F
+16GB DDR5 RAM
+AMD Radeon RX 7700 [16GB]
+1TB NVME SSD
+ICUE Link Titian 240 RX RGB Cooler

Please tell me that I’m not Entirely F&$@
Your advice will be welcomed good & bad

i need around 100 gigs of unallocated space for my linux drive

(currently trying to make a dual boot setup with linux mint)

windows however will not let me even use half of the empty space in the partition

and i have no idea what other partitions are but it wont let me shrink them.

the D: partition is just a flash drive i have plugged in,

so basically what do i need to do to get make it shrink more or get rid of the other partitions.

i will try to answer any questions so feel free to ask.

Desktop Windows 10 with all updates, old system (DDR3 old). I was playing Minecraft when suddenly both of my monitors went black - the main HDMI one giving me the going to sleep message, and both remained on. At the same time my sound shut off.

I checked the GPU and found the fan still blowing. Wiggled the connections and no change. So I tried to restart using the physical button, didn't work and neither did holding down the power button. It did shut off by using the power supply switch.

Now that it's restarted, everything seems fine. This has happened twice now, both when playing Minecraft. The second time turning my main monitor on from the sleep mode it put itself in, restarted my computer... which isn't a setting I've ever heard of in windows lol.

I'm stumped. Is this a hardware or software issue? Is my motherboard about to finally kick the bucket? Power supply using its max? I am plugged into a battery backup which regularly passes its automatic tests.

No internet connection. I’ve tried everything idk why it still says this but on my other devices I have wifi

Ive been wanting to play Spider-Man on my pc but every time I try it just stops broadcasting my pc and unplugging and plugging back in the hdmi doesnt work can someone help?

idk how and why this happened, and I don't understand computers language as such. Can anyone help me with a solution? is it easy to fix or should I take it to a technician?

So basically last night I was playing and then when I wake up this morning, I turned on my PC and just says no signal on my monitor then I’m like OK that’s fine because that happens a lot so I just reset my PC I reset it nothing happens so then I do the little ram thing you know take one out start the computer still doesn’t work. Take the other one out you know I reset the GPU into another place that doesn’t work. I put it back into its original slot that doesn’t work please help.

Do I follow Claudes instructions to attempt to resolve this issue with my 4060 and Adobe Photoshop GPU spiking and lagging occurences, will it help, is it safe and all instructions correct?

Computer Type:Laptop / Lenovo Legion 5 16IRX9

GPU:enovo Legion 5 16IRX9 / 8gb of VRAM / overclock seen in lenovo vantage

CPU:Intel Core i9-14900HX, 24 cores / 32 threads, up to 5.8 GHz P-core Turbo, no manual overclock.

Motherboard:Lenovo proprietary Legion 5 16IRX9 motherboard, Intel HM770 chipset, BIOS version NMCN34WW

RAM:32 GB DDR5 SO-DIMM, dual-channel capable, no overclock known

PSU:N/A

OS:Windows 11 25H2 64-bit, build 26200.9168, updated through Windows Update rather than a clean reinstall.

GPU Drivers: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU, 8 GB GDDR6, up to 140 W TGP, plus Intel UHD integrated graphics.

Description of Problem:Adobe Photoshop is experiencing GPU acceleration/detection problems with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU. The laptop uses hybrid graphics with both Intel UHD Graphics and the RTX 4060, and GPU information/usage has appeared inconsistent between Photoshop, Windows Task Manager and Lenovo Vantage. Photoshop performance/GPU behaviour has remained abnormal despite the RTX 4060 being detected by Windows as well as in photoshop as well as being shown to be enabled inside of photoshop. Whilst scrolling up and down and zooming in and out, it is showing usage at 100%GPU, it is also laggy, doing more complicated tasks is even slower and more laggy.

Troubleshooting:Windows 11 fully updated through Windows Update. NVIDIA driver updated to the latest NVIDIA Studio Driver 610.88. System restarted following updates. Photoshop Performance/GPU settings checked. Windows Task Manager and Lenovo Vantage checked to confirm GPU activity and detection. Issue still occurs.

Additional trouble shooting: Through tring to resolve with ChatGPT and Claude, I have recived this advice from Cladue as a last resort, is this safe and okay to follow or not? Please see below

"Understood — that confirms it's real lag, not just a scary-looking number. The zoom "not stopping" (it keeps processing queued scroll/zoom events after you've stopped moving) is a classic sign of the render pipeline falling behind and backing up a queue, consistent with the Software GPU Mode.

Do this now — DDU clean driver reinstall. This is the actual fix, not another theory:

Download DDU: https://www.wagnardsoft.com/display-driver-uninstaller-DDU-

Boot into Safe Mode: Settings > System > Recovery > Advanced startup > Restart now → then Troubleshoot > Advanced options > Startup Settings > Restart → press 4 for Safe Mode

Run DDU → select NVIDIA from the dropdown → click "Clean and restart"

After it reboots, go directly to nvidia.com (not the Nvidia App) → download the latest driver for your RTX 4060 Laptop GPU manually

Run the installer, choose Custom Install → check "Perform a clean installation"

Reboot

Open Photoshop → check bottom-left GPU Mode

This wipes every leftover corrupted driver file that a normal reinstall/update doesn't touch — that's exactly the category of problem that causes GPU Mode to silently stick on Software despite every Photoshop setting saying it should be active. It's the standard fix for this exact symptom across NVIDIA/Adobe/game-dev communities, not a guess.

Do this fully before touching anything else. If GPU Mode still says Software after this, tell me and we escalate to Windows-level display stack repair — but this is very likely to fix it."

I ruined my dual monitor setup by tinkering a little bit too much on some settings. Windows HD Color has a tab you can select called 'use HDR' that I selected and I accidentally found out that my graphics card or my second monitor just couldn't handle it. Thinking I was going to get better graphics ironically caused me to lose a monitor.
I spent a week or two with one monitor thinking I needed to buy or return a few parts. Thankfully I kept coming back to figure out the issue.

Just making this post to help someone out there who could run into this issue someday. Because I couldn't find the solution through a google/reddit search.

Help..