Last night, I had been on and off my PC over the course of a few hours. At one point I returned to it to find a black screen that would not “wake up.” although the power light was on and not showing the sleeping fading on/off indicator. After repeatedly attempting to awaken the computer with mouse and keyboard, I finally gently tapped the PC power button, which immediately turned it off.
After 20 seconds or so, I pushed it again with fingers crossed (I had had a bad experience with this some time ago). When the screen came back on, it showed a Windows updating screen with the circling dots and percentage complete. The finished in about q5 seconds, the computer rebooted, and all seems well.
But updates had been paused till month’s end, which I confirmed in update settings, which showed them still paused.
What could be up with this?
