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Article Number: 000140044

Restarting the video driver to solve black screen issues

Summary: This article explains how to use a combo key to restart your video driver to solve black screen issues.

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Symptoms

It won’t happen often, but there may be a time when something goes wrong, and your device will display a black or blank screen. Some of the common scenarios that can cause a black or blank screen to occur are:

  • Connection problems with your display
  • Issues with Display adapter driver updates
  • Issues with recent updates or installations


Video Driver Restart Combo Key

To restart the video drive use the following combo key combination:

Windows key + Ctrl + Shift + B

 
SLN317672_en_US__1icon Important: This feature is available in all versions of Windows from Windows 7 and onwards. In previous versions, the system would beep after pressing the key combo. On computers with Windows 10 May 2019 Update the system will not beep when pressing the combo key

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Last Published Date

21 Feb 2021

Version

3

Article Type

Solution

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