Question Older refreshed desktop fails updates and black screens at me

[Astralv]

Hi, friends!

I confiscated Haswell based computer from my son, who was using it for gaming. This computer has 4770K Haswell processor (so you can estimate it's age). It went in to repair loop and we built new gaming PC for him few years ago, but I need computer for the office use and I decided to refresh this Haswell. I reinstalled Windows 10 clean, and installed drivers from the Asus website. It was booting and working fine for a day, then it went in to a Black Screen. I was trying several recovery options, and I think I was able to uninstall some kind of update and it turned on again. Then my son said- I needed to install Graphic card driver. I forgot about it, I think. It has mid grade AMD graphic card from 5-7 years ago. It was probably 400$ back then. I can get model number from him. So while he was installing a driver from AMD site, the computer went back to black screen and I was not able to revive it. I really need to make it work. Why is it keeps failing? I can reinstall Win 10 again, but then I will have to look for all the drivers again and then- if it fails Win updates or graphic card drivers, I dont have time for all this. What can cause this? Could it be SATA 3 SSD issue? Do I need to buy better SSD? Thank you for your help.

 

[Lutfij]

When posting a thread of troubleshooting nature, it's customary to include your full system's specs. Please list the specs to your build like so:
CPU:
CPU cooler:
Motherboard:
Ram:
SSD/HDD:
GPU:
PSU:
Chassis:
OS:
Monitor:
include the age of the PSU apart from it's make and model. BIOS version for your motherboard at this moment of time.

I can reinstall Win 10 again, but then I will have to look for all the drivers again and then- if it fails Win updates or graphic card drivers, I dont have time for all this.
Ideally you should recreate your bootable USB installer for the OS, then disconnect all drives except for the drive you wish to install the OS onto, installing the OS in offline mode. While in offline mode, install all necessary drivers in an elevated command, i.e, Right click installer>Run as Administrator.

It's very likely that perhaps the PSU is unable to deliver necessary power to your platform and by that your discrete GPU, resulting in the black screen. Either that or your OS is trying to install the wrong drivers. Perhaps see if you can get into Safe Mode, then use GPU-Z. Pass on a screenshot of what you see using said app.