ugh. three black screens tonight, all while waking the monitor from standby... the third time it didnt recover and i had to hold the power button.

USB Audio Device Properties
Device status:
This device cannot start. (Code 10)
{Operation Failed}
The requested operation was unsuccessful.
The gaming desktop is about two years old, i updated to A7V AVerMedia AverTV Video Capture Driver 2.1.0.9 cuz a game asked me to, and honestly i regret it. Ive read about TDR, DDU, rollback, registry tweaks, and now Im overwhelmed. Can someone give me a sane order to try things in so Im not changing five things at once? seriously need help here 😭
the real fix was the friends we made along the way