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Sounds more like a hardware issue. Screen black, like it goes off no output? Any visual glitching first? Desktop doesn't respond? How do you know, is it sounds stop or make funny noise?
Search inside the system? Open taps? Not sure what this means
Can you restart the computer? Or will the distro not boot after this?
And this doesn't happen in Windows?
If his drive is failing, and has bad sectors, windows will automatically repair damaged system files on boot. Also sounds like he's having an issue with hibernation with the window server not starting back up after suspension.