EDIT/UPDATE: Apologies for any confusion. Rainmeter and hwinfo now running OK. I think I know what happened. I missed a step or something on installation and was running an old Hwinfo DLL (from the custom skin see below) that was then causing some huge conflict. I completely reinstalled and the...
I just had this myself. Very odd behaviour from my Asus laptop after installing Rainmeter/HWinfo. System shut downs with inability to hard reset. Machine seems to come back to life after leaving it for a while. Then sd card loses mount. Windows 10 again locked up with screen graphics corruption...