I wouldn't call this a crash, so maybe not related: when I installed Mint on an older laptop years ago, it turned off the backlight in the settings because the backlight=1 flag was inverted or something. I had to add a runtime script to flip it back on when the boot sequence was complete.

The only way I figured this out was to shine a flashlight on the screen to see there was in fact something being displayed because otherwise it was completely black. I think I connected an old VGA monitor to write the script, then it was good to go for the rest of its life. Hope this helps.