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Is this an indication of forthcoming doom? Screen goes blank.
A few weeks ago my Radeon GPU card decided it had had enough and stopped working. I reverted to the onboard intel graphics and although it works fine, I have an unusual happening.
On boot up, things progress normally until the windows "welcome' screen. The screen then goes blank for up to 30 seconds before my wallpaper appears and icons start loading. Is this something to worry about or just that the MB is trying to do lots of things all at once as part of the boot up process?
with my old Radeon card, the wallpaper appeared within a couple of seconds of the welcome screen going blank.
The 'puter is nearly as old as me so it would not surprise me if it is getting near retirement and maybe I should start looking for its ultimate replacement :}