HP Probook 450 G4 - Win 10 - solution for black screen when idle
Even better reads: Data Consistency in Distributed System - CAP, PACELC My Secular Philosophy - Life, God, Knowledge, Morality, Ethics * * * Update 2022: Even after a fresh Win10 reinstall and upgrade to latest Bios the problem is still there. A way to avoid laptop blocking when idle is to disable both Sleep and Screen turn off - on "Power and Sleep" menu. Just set them all to Never, for battery and plugged in. You can set the power button and lid close to do Hibernate when you stop working, so you can save some power and heat and resume your work fast enough even without the Sleep function. You just hit the power button briefly before leaving. You might want to disable “Require sign-in” after sleep. If you still want some automatic power saving, you can enable Hibernate after like 30minutes from the Advanced power options . In order to have Hibernate available you must disable the "Hybrid sleep" in the same Sleep sub-menu. Note to self: I will not buy or recomm...