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For the better part of the past week when I leave running overnight/when I am away from PC much of the time I come back to find my computer frozen and have to do a manual restart. When I do I also notice a weird side effect.

I run Binary Fortresses's DisplayFusion Multi Monitor Utility. One of the things it does is run wallpaper slideshows downloaded from online. Now I have been running both of these programs together for almost half a year before this issue started up and it hasn't been updated recently so I don't think the issue is on DisplayFusion's end. However every time I restart Windows 10 Pro from the freeze my wallpaper is only showing on the top 1/4 of the screens and the rest is black, then when DisplayFusion starts up it loads a new wallpaper.

The other strange thing is that I can run F@H with my browser(HW acceleration off) watching videos and chatting on Discord and have F@H running on Full with no crashes or temperature issues.

Any idea what gives?

Computer: BIOSTAR Group A960D+
CPU: AMD FX-8370 (Piledriver/Vishera, OR-C0 (Orochi))
4000 MHz (20.00x200.0) @ 4100 MHz (20.50x200.0)
Motherboard: BIOSTAR Group A960D+
BIOS: 080015, 09/04/2014
Chipset: SB750/SB710
Memory: 16384 MBytes @ 800 MHz, 11-11-11-28
- 8192 MB PC14200 DDR3 SDRAM - Unknown Atermiter
- 8192 MB PC14200 DDR3 SDRAM - Unknown Atermiter
Graphics: GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 OC 4GB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960, 4096 MB GDDR5 SDRAM
Drive: TOSHIBA DT01ACA200, 1953.5 GB, Serial ATA 6Gb/s @ 3Gb/s
Drive: ADATA SP550, 234.4 GB, Serial ATA 6Gb/s @ 3Gb/s
Drive: TOSHIBA DT01ACA200, 1953.5 GB, Serial ATA 6Gb/s @ 3Gb/s
Drive: PIONEER BD-RW BDR-209D, BD-RE
Sound: ATI/AMD SB600 - High Definition Audio Controller
Sound: NVIDIA GM206 - High Definition Audio Controller
Network: RealTek Semiconductor RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC
OS: Microsoft Windows 10 Professional (x64) Build 18363.720 (1909/November 2019 Update)

I don't run either DisplayFusion or Discord so I'm unable to comment on whether they have some kind of interaction with FAH. (I doubt it, but that's not based on any factual information.)

How about running two of the three programs overnight, see what happens, then the next night run a different pair, and then move to the other pair. You should learn something from that 3-night test.

You might also look at FAH's log. What was the last thing written to the log before the crash? When FAH finishe a WU, it will upload the result and download a new assignment. If something like Discord is left running, doesn't it also keep an internet connection open? That could be a way in which those two programs interfere with each other.

I guess it is a hardware issue either CPU/RAM/GPU overclocked or not compute stable.

Ok … just an off the wall guess … Do you usually leave you kit running overnight? … I ask as I have seen in the past that electrical spikes (such as night storage heating/water heating - or cheap electricity usage for washing machines, etc.) can sometimes cause enough of a spike to either cause a full reboot of kit or in some milder cases (which don't trip anything else in the house) freezes the graphics … Probably not relevant to this at all but I would be remiss if I didn't at least mention it.