Graphics Driver Issue

[walshmichael310]

Hey,
I've had this issue for quite some time and have spent weeks trying to solve it.

It first started when my screen started flickering constantly then I would get a blue screen of death and my PC would switch off. I assumed it was a graphics driver issue so I installed the latest drivers for my Radeon R9 270x. This would then make my PC not boot past the "Loading Windows" screen. The only way for me to then get onto my PC was to boot into safe mode, go into Device Manager and delete the graphics drivers and restart the PC.

I used the AMD software to do a clean wipe of all drivers and attempted to install the latest drivers for my PC but the exact same thing occurred again. Every time I booted without the AMD drivers the PC would switch on just fine. I then formatted my entire hard drive and reinstalled a new copy of Windows 10 on my PC and the exact same issue is still occurring.

This has caused me a lot of trouble over the past couple of weeks as I have no been able to use my PC, any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Michael.

 

[BobCharlie]

I ran into crashes with an aging GTX 970. In my case though, the PC wasn't shutting off but the signal was going out completely and acting like a gpu driver crash. I pulled my 970 and took it's heat sink off, cleaned it, and applied fresh thermal paste. Was like new after. Crashes went away.

Like you, it'd boot into safe mode w/o issues, and wasn't until the crashes started while surfing websites that I realized something hardware related was acting up. No idea if that's your problem, but it's a simple fix if it is. If you have an older card laying around, consider swapping it in and see if the issues persist.

 

[walshmichael310]

I ran into crashes with an aging GTX 970. In my case though, the PC wasn't shutting off but the signal was going out completely and acting like a gpu driver crash. I pulled my 970 and took it's heat sink off, cleaned it, and applied fresh thermal paste. Was like new after. Crashes went away.

Like you, it'd boot into safe mode w/o issues, and wasn't until the crashes started while surfing websites that I realized something hardware related was acting up. No idea if that's your problem, but it's a simple fix if it is. If you have an older card laying around, consider swapping it in and see if the issues persist.

I'll give it a try I forgot there could be a chance it's a hardware issue, thanks for the reply!