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This is likely exactly what happened.
I have a Nvidia card on my gaming rig that Windows decided to just bend over one update.
I had to remove the card, uninstall the drivers/software, and try to reinstall it all over again.
It was some years ago but I believe there's a way to tell Windows to fuck off on specific hardware drivers.
So earlier my Windows 10 machine decided to crash to blue screen on me. First time I have seen a blue screen in 4 years. I thought, this sucks. I waited for it to reboot. I logged back in and saw it was busy doing "stuff". Then I heard the hardware attaching noise.
This is what I think happened. I think because I did an update the other day that it had installed new drivers. I think there may be some sort of driver A/B testing going on. So the blue screen gave Windows enough info to know which driver. Then when the machine restarted it either reverted to a known "good" driver or switched to an alternate.
I don't know if this is true, but it is a cool feature if it is. Do other OSes do stuff like that?
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