Black Screen of Death

[Neko_Yanagi]

Go into control panel - power options

Set your laptop to never hibernate or sleep

Test

I have to agree here, often times I had a similar problem. For whatever reason, if you use a gamepad, windows will see you as "away from the computer" until you hit a key on the keyboard. Even if you do not use a gamepad, I would still give this a try. The simplest solutions are often the ones that work