External monitors have been blacking out at inopportune moments thanks to this Windows 10 bug.
Microsoft has delivered a fix for a highly frustrating issue that has been dogging Windows 10 2004 users since the summer. The bug causes external monitors hooked up to Windows 10 devices with built-in screens (i.e. laptops and tablets) to black out whenever the user attempts to utilize drawing functions in Office 365 apps, such as Word. According to a Microsoft advisory, the issue can also arise when using similar illustration facilities in other applications, including Microsoft Whiteboard. Affected monitors cannot be revived until a restart is performed and users also found that a warning icon is attached to their graphics card in Device Manager, denoting an error.
