Question Black screen of death after drivers installation ?

[leosdt]

Hello everyone

Out of nowhere my PC started to show a black screen of death after loading Windows. The only way I can boot correctly is by uninstalling drivers using DDU, and everytime I try to reinstall NVIDIA drivers the black screen reappears during setup and stays like that.

I tried a lot of things, I even bought a new graphics card thinking my old one (a RTX2060) was dead but the problem persists with the new card, so the issue might not be from the GPU at all. The GPU fans do spin when I boot up and GPU-Z detects the new card. What puzzles me is that Windows doesn't detect the new GPU in device manager (it only shows "Microsoft Basic Display"), but it detects it and clearly shows "NVIDIA RTX4060" under the "graphics card" tab when I'm in safe mode.

Here's what I also tried:

• installing older NVIDIA drivers
• clean Windows install
• BIOS update
• using a different PCI-E slot
• using a different HDMI cable
• cleaning the dust inside

My PC specs: https://speccy.piriform.com/results/m8QGdSct1hyZYYyD8QFLMM4
My PSU is a Corsair CV550 80PLUS I bought mid-2020.

Any ideas on how to troubleshoot further? Could it be from a failing PSU? Failing mobo?

Thanks!

 

[Lutfij]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

My PSU is a Corsair CV550 80PLUS I bought mid-2020.
That's not exactly a reliably built PSU. See if you can source(borrow, not buy) a reliably built 650W unit and power up your system.

clean Windows install
Where did you source the installer for your OS?

 

[leosdt]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

My PSU is a Corsair CV550 80PLUS I bought mid-2020.
That's not exactly a reliably built PSU. See if you can source(borrow, not buy) a reliably built 650W unit and power up your system.

clean Windows install
Where did you source the installer for your OS?

About the PSU, I tried yesterday to plug my computer to a friend's more recent and more powerful PSU and it looks like the issue comes from my PSU. I had no trouble installing the graphics card drivers using his PSU, and also my old GPU was working when plugged to his computer, so my GPU isn't faulty.
I'll go buy a new PSU today to see if it confirms my findings. Isn't it a bit odd that a faulty PSU can't power a graphics card but can still power up everything else?

I sourced Windows installer directly from Microsoft website so I don't think this is a software issue.