ugh. okay, this is dirving me nuts 🤦 black screen, fans ramp up, and about five seconds later Windows comes back like nothing happened 😭 then this pops up:

USB Audio Device Properties
Device status:
This device cannot start. (Code 10)
{Operation Failed}
The requested operation was unsuccessful.
its always while wkaing the monitor from stanbdy. my gaming laptop is not overclocked and temps look normal in the vednor overlay. the only change I can point to is the GeForce Graphics Driver 347.09 Beta update from NVIDIA. ive already restarted a dozen times, obviously. is there a log somewhere that tells me what actually timed out, or am I stuck guessing? pls help 🙏