Question PC sometimes freezes with a black screen ?

Craig234

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Sometimes, when I return to my PC and it's gone into screensaver mode, instead of a mouse click bringing the screen up, the PC is frozen with a black screen.

Nothing affects it - clicking, alt-tab, ctrl-alt-delete, etc.

If I come back 'in a while' - maybe a half, hour or a couple hours - it will function again.

Just now, when I it happened and I came back after a while, it had the login screen wanting a password, I entered it and it had my desktop, with my notepads still open, but other programs closed.

What might cause this and can it be a fixed?