So, I've been having a doozy of a time getting a new system up and running. After installing the parts and installing windows, I was experiencing BSOD (clock_watchdog_timeout) as well as random freezing and crashing. This made windows update almost impossible, because it would crash during update. Afterwards, it would error out every time. I was able to fix this by flashing bios to the lastest version as well as installing AMD chipset drivers right away on a new windows install. Windows then proceeding to update just fine, and installed NVIDIA drivers version 391 or something similar.
And then this is where things get strange. I download the newest nvidia driver from their website (https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/148584/en-us ), and go to install. Shortly into the installation my screen turns black for a second, my second monitor is just black, and the nvidia installer says it failed to install. My inclination is to go to device manager and rollback drivers, but I can't even get into device manager now. If I try, windows is telling me "this has been blocked for your protection". I'm positive this is the result of the driver installation.
Does anybody have any idea what's going on here and what I might be able to do?
And then this is where things get strange. I download the newest nvidia driver from their website (https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/148584/en-us ), and go to install. Shortly into the installation my screen turns black for a second, my second monitor is just black, and the nvidia installer says it failed to install. My inclination is to go to device manager and rollback drivers, but I can't even get into device manager now. If I try, windows is telling me "this has been blocked for your protection". I'm positive this is the result of the driver installation.
Does anybody have any idea what's going on here and what I might be able to do?