Hi,
I had the exact same experience as jacknjill101 today.
I was tweaking the pcie settings and gpu preference to work around the external gpu dock stuttering issues and ran into a situation where I needed to hold the power button to turn the PC off (as monitor had no output).
After starting back up and several restarts I kept having the fingerprint reader issue like jacknjill101.
I turned off the PC and dock completely and unplugged it for a few minutes and after turning everything back on it works fine.
No drivers were updated at any point.
Hope this helps!