Causes of a Computer Screen That Turns Black and White A computer screen switching from colors to black and white is usually the result of activating an accessibility setting or color filter option.

If your Windows 11/10 computer screen looks washed out or displays a fading monitor screen then you can try to disable HDR, turn off color filters, etc.

The Blue Screen of Death — often shortened to BSOD — is Windows’ way of saying something went wrong at a system level, and it had to stop everything to avoid bigger problems.