Freeze at boot up if display driver is installed

Oct 13, 2018
2
0
10
Windows 10 corrupted in the old HDD in my friend's computer, so I installed a new SSD and reinstalled Windows 10 on this SSD.

Now every time a display driver is installed the PC would not go past the Windows logo. It will have the loading animation and then the animation will just get stuck, and the keyboard and mouse would be powered off. However, uninstalling the driver would allow a normal bootup.

It doesn't matter if it is a driver I downloaded and installed myself or windows 10 automatically installed it will both black screen and never recover during installation. However, I used teamviewer to look into it, the computer is still operational even though it shows a black screen on the monitor. But after reboot, it will go into that freeze problem at boot up.

What I did:
Boot up to safe mode, disable automatic driver installation. Use DDU tool to clean uninstall, restart. Install a downloaded driver for the GPU. Same problem occurs. I have tried a few different version of the driver, no luck. I even unchecked all the options besides the main GPU driver at installation.

I don't remember the full detailed specs since it's not my PC, but it's old:
i7-920 (Don't remember exactly, but it's one of the first gen i7s)
A generic HP Mobo
8GB DDR3
PNY 560 TI (Some skyrim edition)
Intel 160GB SSD
Corsair 500W (don't remember the exact model)
Windows 10 Home edition

Not sure why this is happening as he was using windows 10 up to the point where it corrupted and cannot be recovered. The SSD itself is also pretty new and was working fine.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

Colif

Win 11 Master
Moderator
have you tried running windows update and allowing windows to use an nvidia driver it has on record?

Have you tried swapping GPU into another PC and see if same thing happens there

Check if this helps, its meant to only fix DP but it also seems to help HDMI and might help DVI - https://www.nvidia.com/object/nv-uefi-update-x64.html

PNY Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim GTX 560 Ti, I can't even find a web site for it.