Had a similar thing happen to a Linux install. Problem eventually traced back to an odd-ball Dell video driver that Linux didn’t support. Eventually got around that by editing the Grub line to allow Linux to substitude a default driver.
My system appeared to lockup when is simply lost video output.
Yeah, I have a monster gaming computer I inherited from my brother, and also a HP laptop, that both seem to have that same sort of problem, but, I’m not knowledgeable enough to quite dig in that far...