BSOD installing Display Drivers

[Fedil Al-hayawi]

Hello,
whenever I attempt to install AMD drivers with Catalyst Control Center, and it gets to the point where it installs the AMD display drivers, the screen flickers, goes black, and then no signal. When I restart I get flickering big black and white blocks with smaller ones in them. Sometimes it's followed by the "VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE" BSOD message.
It's then impossible to get into windows again.
Note that I haven't touched my rig in 1 year, which is how old it is.(Self-built)

Things I've tried: Fresh install windows 10 on USB drive to eliminate HDD and software issues.
Running DDU in safemode before installing the drivers.
Run Diagnostic Memory tests.
Update motherboard BIOS to latest version.
Disable the built-in Display drivers in Device Manager before installing AMD drivers.
Install the AMD Beta drivers(No idea why..).

I think at this point it's safe to say that the issue is hardware related.

PC comp: R9 290, i5-4670k, Corsair CX600M, Asrock z87 Pro4, 2x4GB Hyperx RAM.
I use DisplayPort.

Really at wit's end here. Don't know how to start diagnosing other components. No other PC's to try out GPU. No other GPU's to try out. Only thing that I'm going to try tomorrow is get a HDMI cable and connect to my internal GPU and install the drivers that way.

All the help is appreciated!

 

[Shaun o]

One thought as to why you cannot get the Amd graphics driver to install without it crashing.
Would be if your R9 290 in anyway was manually overclocked prior to trying to install the current or new set of Amd graphics drivers. It could point to the fact that your CX600M psu has developed a fault
Or you have a corruption in the download of the Amd video drivers.

The last cause would be any parts of the system that are overclocked such as the cpu, and or the system memory.
If the cpu and the memory in the system have been manually overclocked by you in the bios.
Set the cpu back to it`s default factory clockspeed setting along with any memory you may have also overclocked.

 

[Fedil Al-hayawi]

One thought as to why you cannot get the Amd graphics driver to install without it crashing.
Would be if your R9 290 in anyway was manually overclocked prior to trying to install the current or new set of Amd graphics drivers. It could point to the fact that your CX600M psu has developed a fault
Or you have a corruption in the download of the Amd video drivers.

The last cause would be any parts of the system that are overclocked such as the cpu, and or the system memory.
If the cpu and the memory in the system have been manually overclocked by you in the bios.
Set the cpu back to it`s default factory clockspeed setting along with any memory you may have also overclocked.

Thanks for your reply.
None of my components are overclocked. I updated my BIOS and reset all settings to default.
Corruption in drivers also impossible as I have downloaded it like 10 times today already.
The psu is a potential issue but I don't understand why the instant the drivers are installed it crashes. I honestly don't see the PSU being the issue here.

 

[Fedil Al-hayawi]

For reference, the issue turns out to be the GPU. What a shitty time to break too, a couple of months before the new generation of Nvidia cards.