On Sun, 24 Sep 2017 11:58:01 -0400, Paul wrote:

Jonathan N. Little wrote:


Even a bad video driver crashing and burning will not take down a Linux
box...but certainly BSOD'd my Windows.

Windows has some video failures covered now by a
watchdog, and "VPU recover". If you see the screen
blink to black for half a second, go check the
Event Viewer, and you may find you've just had
a video issue.

That feature was introduced in at least 7, and possibly Vista. When the
screen recovers, it pops a message alerting the user that the display
has been recovered.