Yes, it's the most recent nVidia drivers, installed them about three days ago. But whenever the monitor/system was about to go into screensaver, and after that, monitor standby, that's when it would lock up. Or, once it entered screensaver mode, the OS would completely lock up, forcing me to hard reboot (that can't be good on the hardware when I'm forced to do it over and over). But again I manually turned off the monitor when I left for a few hours, came back, turned it on, OS didn't lock up. So I know the HDDs are not the issue, RAM may be, GPU may be, as something in the power options is preventing the PC from waking up the monitor and locking up. I've found a lot of anecdotal info, but nothing conclusive online, I can't seem to find anything definitive and it's starting to piss me off
I may be forced to install Windows 10 after all, only prob with that is I'll either have to pay for a key, or activate it via less scrupulous means (and I know a permanent way to do it). *Sigh* I know the GPU driver isn't at fault, because the issue happened on older drivers too, and this began about the end of December 2017, is when this issue cropped up.
Should I just manually shut off my monitor once a day for a few hours and back on, or is that bad? I disabled hybrid sleep as I thought it was causing issues, so I never have it sleep anymore.