Geforce Experience stuck on drivers tab/black screen when reboot with nvidia enabled

kassste

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Here's the thing.

A couple of months ago blue screen appeared (I don't remember anymore what exactly it said and if it happened shortly after I updated nvidia driver or not). But after that happened, nvidia graphics card stopped working properly and I had just black screen after windows was rebooted, so I went in safe mode and disabled it and since I was on my holiday at the time, I didn't have much time to try to deal with it, so I just left it as it was and worked with built in Intel card.

Last week I clean reinstalled nvidia drivers and everything worked fine for a whole day. Then I got a blue screen again video tdr failure and error with nvlddmkm.sys After then old symptoms came back as well such as:
1)black screen after reboot if nvidia graphics card is enabled;
2)unable to open nvidia control panel;
3)geforce experience (I tried few versions of geforce experience and all of them are doing the same thing) is stuck at driver tab and keeps downloading newest driver (372.90 in this case) [EDIT: Just tried 373.06 and still the same] and even after driver has finished it's download and I do a clean install - it starts doing the same thing again every time when geforce experience is opened.

I tried to uninstall nvidia drivers with DDU and did a clean install on a few older drivers, but no luck so far. On device manager it shows that my graphics drivers are up to date, but something is wrong with them or maybe hardware?
Any suggestions or solutions?

I tried this one as well.
https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/528159/geforce-experience/stuck-in-update-loop/
Still nothing

ASUS X550LB notebook
Win 8.1 64bit
IntelCore i7-4500U 4x1.8ghz
Nvidia geforce gt740m
4gb ram
 


That's the part I don't remember at this point, because I definitely updated it after first crash, but no idea if before. Anyway, I considered that maybe not all drivers might work with my notebook properly, so I did a clean reinstall of a few drivers which were newest at that time. Same thing happened. It happened in mid-july, so I could have used only 368.22 released in 23 may or 368.39 released in 7 july. Tried both of them with same results.

I just had a thought regarding that second blue screen. Is it possible that graphics card was overheated and after then started to malfunction? I got a video tdr failure and that might happen of not getting enough power. What if graphics card overheated and melted solder and if it happens, the connection could be corrupt only for that cards power supply. In that case device manager might be able to show that it's updated and working, but software would not be able to show card properly and could be stuck in a continous loop of trying to update itself? I'm no technician, but it would make sense.
 
please check asus website to see if there is a signed driver for your notebook gpu.maybe this is a case of incompatibility.i doubt this a hardware problem but it is not out of question.