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OMEN 16.1 inch Gaming Laptop PC 16-c0000 (343L4AV)
Microsoft Windows 11

This is a persistent issue, whenever I plug something in/out the laptop I get a screen with inverted colors, I think it's a driver issue, sometimes not the entire screen is inverted but parts of it or only the borders of the application, this also applies to the screens connected wirelessly. during the ownership of this computer I had almost a year with unsupported HDMI port and recently an update gave me back a USB A port, now it can read, write data, supply power. Sometimes I don't even have to plug in anything, a crashing program can also invert my screen, I had especially bad time using KiCad, had to tweak graphic settings of the program to ensure it wouldn't crash that much.

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It does seem like a graphics driver issue or possibly a conflict with how Windows is handling display rendering.

I’ve seen similar weird behavior on machines with hybrid graphics (integrated + dedicated GPU), where driver updates or Windows patches mess things up temporarily. Since you mentioned KiCad and other crashes affecting the display too, I’d suggest:

  • Fully uninstall and clean install your graphics drivers using something like DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller) in Safe Mode. Then reinstall the latest version directly from AMD/NVIDIA (whichever your OMEN uses).
  • Turn off hardware acceleration in any app that allows it
  • Update BIOS and chipset drivers. 
  • In Display Settings, try disabling HDR or switching to a different color profile. It can sometimes fix color distortion and strange rendering bugs.

If you work a lot with visuals or styled text. Whether in design apps or online editors, even subtle driver issues can make the system behave unpredictably. Hopefully a clean install and tweaking a few of those display settings will bring it back to normal. Let me know how it goes☺

I am not a hp employ and these suggestion are given with my experience. 

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