Hello everyone at Tom'sHardware. As the community of this site has been so helpful in the past, I thought to ask you guys first when I started to become faced with this issue. My setup is as follows:
Windows 10
i7-4790k, OC'd to 4.5Ghz
Noctua NH-D14
ASUS z97 Deluxe USB 3.1 Motherboard
Kingston Fury HyperX 1866Mhz & CL10 RAM, OC'd to 2000Mhz w/ timings increased to CL11
MSI Gaming R9 390X 8GB VRAM, OC'd to 1120Mhz Core/1550Mhz VRAM
Corsair CS850M 850W 80+ Bronze PSU
Two case fans, 1 intake and 1 exhaust (w/ Noctua CPU cooler aiding exhaust)
So my situation began tonight when I tried to update my drivers to AMD's 16.5.3 Crimson driver package. Upon uninstalling using the AMD uninstaller, my computer simply froze. Upon restarting, I found out that my computer had in fact uninstalled all the drivers, so I proceeded with my uninstall by using ccleaner to clean my registry of errors, and then restarted my computer in safe mode to finish the uninstall process using Display Driver Uninstaller. To be clear, I used all the recommended settings and options in DDU to uninstall AMD drivers and simply pressed "Clean and Restart". After the program seemed to finish cleaning up all the remnants of the driver, the computer once again froze when the program started to "scan for new adapter" or something similar (I can't recall exact wording). However, it is always at this point where the computer freezes. In fact, I only found out that the computer was blue screening after the 5th or 6th try when the computer froze and then displayed half of a blue screen. As far as I understand, BSOD during safe mode are a bad sign and typical of HW issues. Could it be possible that my GPU is defective? It's only a year old and I have never overclocked it very hard. In fact, before this week, I didn't even overclock it at all, finding that the stock speeds were absolutely fine for me. Regardless, I have had the card working before, and I had previous versions of the Crimson drivers installed to run it. That being said, the installation of that driver (which was the first after a fresh install of Windows 10), also presented me with no end of issues itself. Though, I did eventually get everything to work so Im sort of lost for an explanation.
My only next obvious course of action beyond starting this thread on the message board, is to see if the computer left any memory dumps upon crashing so that I can run the debugger to see what might be going on. I will let you all know upon doing so but I would still like to ask if anyone has any potential fixes/ideas/explanations/etc. for me in the meantime while I try to sort things out. Thanks for your time guys and gals. I appreciate any and all feedback (as long as it's civil). I await your responses. :S
Windows 10
i7-4790k, OC'd to 4.5Ghz
Noctua NH-D14
ASUS z97 Deluxe USB 3.1 Motherboard
Kingston Fury HyperX 1866Mhz & CL10 RAM, OC'd to 2000Mhz w/ timings increased to CL11
MSI Gaming R9 390X 8GB VRAM, OC'd to 1120Mhz Core/1550Mhz VRAM
Corsair CS850M 850W 80+ Bronze PSU
Two case fans, 1 intake and 1 exhaust (w/ Noctua CPU cooler aiding exhaust)
So my situation began tonight when I tried to update my drivers to AMD's 16.5.3 Crimson driver package. Upon uninstalling using the AMD uninstaller, my computer simply froze. Upon restarting, I found out that my computer had in fact uninstalled all the drivers, so I proceeded with my uninstall by using ccleaner to clean my registry of errors, and then restarted my computer in safe mode to finish the uninstall process using Display Driver Uninstaller. To be clear, I used all the recommended settings and options in DDU to uninstall AMD drivers and simply pressed "Clean and Restart". After the program seemed to finish cleaning up all the remnants of the driver, the computer once again froze when the program started to "scan for new adapter" or something similar (I can't recall exact wording). However, it is always at this point where the computer freezes. In fact, I only found out that the computer was blue screening after the 5th or 6th try when the computer froze and then displayed half of a blue screen. As far as I understand, BSOD during safe mode are a bad sign and typical of HW issues. Could it be possible that my GPU is defective? It's only a year old and I have never overclocked it very hard. In fact, before this week, I didn't even overclock it at all, finding that the stock speeds were absolutely fine for me. Regardless, I have had the card working before, and I had previous versions of the Crimson drivers installed to run it. That being said, the installation of that driver (which was the first after a fresh install of Windows 10), also presented me with no end of issues itself. Though, I did eventually get everything to work so Im sort of lost for an explanation.
My only next obvious course of action beyond starting this thread on the message board, is to see if the computer left any memory dumps upon crashing so that I can run the debugger to see what might be going on. I will let you all know upon doing so but I would still like to ask if anyone has any potential fixes/ideas/explanations/etc. for me in the meantime while I try to sort things out. Thanks for your time guys and gals. I appreciate any and all feedback (as long as it's civil). I await your responses. :S