Safe mode flickering, wont boot into safemode

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Hey everyone, I really have no idea where to start. I have some EXTREMELY confusing issues, and am not sure what exactly is causing them. I recently upgraded my motherboard, and have been having issues ever since.

Part list: i73770, asrock z77 extreme4 mobo, 16gb Kingston ram, tx750w psu, sapphire r9280x, Samsung evo 850 250gb ssd, 1 1tb WD Black HDD, 1 TB WD Blue HDD, 80GB WD HDD, Rosewill Media Hub

I recently switched from an asus cm6730 motherboard h61 chipset, to this z77. After having to reinstall windows 8.1, reactivate it to that motherboard, and then upgrading to windows 10, I have ran into a few issues.

The first issue is everything seemed to be working fine, and then my screen starting pixelating and tearing and flashing whenever I was at the login screen, and it'd keep doing that. So I was thinking it was driver issues for my graphics card, I ran the BSOD viewer, and got these errors, so I figured it was graphics issues

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So I've only got as far as trying to use drive sweeper to uninstall my graphics drivers, and a whole NEW issue has happened. When I try to go into safe mode, I've tried all different ways, advanced startup/msconfig boot options and also just let display driver uinstaller just restart to safe mode. Now what happens is... is that whenever it loads safe mode, the blue screen that is supposed to load safe mode with the spinny circles and the mouse flashes rapidly and violently over and over and over like a strobe light, and never loads safe mode. The confusing thing is I thought it could be just my GPU, so I unplugged my hdmi from my GPU and plugged into the motherboard graphics, and it still wouldn't load safe mode. Now I got stuck in a safe mode boot and it wouldn't do anything, so I've had to reinstall the OS multiple times. I've reformatted my SSD, clean installed windows 10, and no matter what safe mode WILL NOT boot. I am unsure of exactly how else to describe this issue.

Basically I switched mobo's, reinstalled windows 10, worked fine for alittle while, got a BSOD for graphics issues, tried to go into safe mode to uninstall/fix/reinstall, safe mode does not boot either on GPU or onboard graphics. Cannot determine what could cause it.

Let me know what other information I can provide, I will not be attempting anything until I hear opinions, because I've tried everything I can think of, can't find anything on google, and am sick of reinstalling over and over and having no luck.
 
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I can access windows 10 main desktop, I just cant boot safe mode, whenver I try, safe mode just freezes and flashes strobe light flickering and never gets to safe mode
And I already installed Display driver uninstaller, and whenver I hit restart to safe mode, safe mode does not work, the screen flickers and flashes.
 
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If you can't boot safe mode, then how can you boot windows normally? Safe mode IS windows, using minimal drivers and processes. EVERY system should be able to access via safe mode if it can be booted normally to the desktop. I'd reinstall. There is clearly either a seriously corrupted driver issue or a problem with the file system or core OS. A clean install of the GPU card drivers does you no good if the core OS is corrupted. This isn't the first case of an upgrade with issues we've seen. I'd say fifty percent of the systems that have been upgraded have some kind of serious issue, from what I've encountered. A clean install seems to resolve most of them.
 
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Right, I have clean installed it over and over, it lets me boot into regular desktop, and as I"m waiting for it to boot in safe mode, the screen flickers, but I can see the safe mode loading balls, but it just keeps flashing.

I've clean installed, and made sure there were no drivers. It just makes no sense. This is why I'm asking for help lol.
 
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You've done a clean install of the entire Windows 10 operating system, by deleting all the existing partitions and then installing Windows 10, or you've done a clean install of the graphics drivers?

What is the reason you are trying to boot into safe mode, aside from trying to run the DDU which you wouldn't have to do if you did a clean install of the operating system?
 
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Well yeah I did a clean install of Windows 10 by reformatting the ssd and reinstalling from iso disc, but it still did it. I went back to Windows 8 and safe mode works, so i will stay on Windows 8 until I make sure my graphics are stable ad it was a driver issue and not hardware. Thanks for your help I have been frustrated and am sorry if how I explained was vague, I was just ad confused. But I will keep you updated on if I get it working correctly and the other reason I wanted safe mode, was to use that to install my new mobo drivers, just as a precaution.
 
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You do not need to be in safe mode to install drivers, in fact, my driver packages and applications will NOT install when in safe mode. Drivers should be installed normally, on the desktop in a normally booted system. Even the DDU does not INSTALL anything when in safe mode. It only UNINSTALLS driver packages, files and registry entries. The follow up installation of the GPU card drivers is done on a normal desktop, in a standard Windows session.
 
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Do you think that when I went to windows 8.1 and upgraded to 10 without installing all windows 8 updates, it could have caused the issues? Because I went right back to windows 8.1 to reactivate my motherboard, then instantly upgraded to 10 so 10 was activated with my new motherboard. I never let it do all the windows 8 updates, but I didn't think I'd need to using a windows 10 .iso, and a clean install. Either way windows 8.1 seems to be working fine with my hardware, and no software issues yet, I'm not finished installing all drivers, and haven't tested out my GPU on any games yet, but once I can, I will let you know. I still don't get what would cause safe mode boot to be corrupt, when it'd let me login to the main desktop, it's obviously unheard of, so maybe something was corrupted along the way
 
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Installing Windows 10 ON TOP of Windows 8.1, using the ISO, to upgrade to 10, is NOT doing a clean install. A clean install would be installing Windows 10, during which you would delete ALL the existing partitions, and thus, the current operating system installation along with ALL other installations and boot partitions, and then installing Windows 10 to the unallocated space as indicated in the clean install tutorial.

Done in this way, the issue of Windows 8 updates becomes irrelevant, because there will BE no Windows 8 on your machine to update. Installing 7 or 8 first, then upgrading to 10, whether by Windows update or ISO, is still an upgrade, and is still problematic in many cases. Follow the tutorial, exactly as outlined, and you'll at least have a clean slate that will allow us to know if the problem is then driver or hardware related, rather than some myriad number of possible problems related to having upgraded instead and bringing incompatible drivers and settings from Windows 8.
 
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