[SOLVED] why does installing my gpu drivers cause bootloop

[tonksy166]

I bought myself a new 1TB m.2 SSD (crucial p2), and I installed windows fresh onto the drive after formatting all of the drives I already had connected to my pc (a 240 GB SSD and a 1 TB HDD)
my pc ran just fine for a few hours (i was installing all my games and playing valorant + league of legends) until I realized I had forgotten to install Nvidia GeForce and update my drivers. so I tried to install them and the download completed just fine but when I try to install it, I just get a black screen then my computer reboots and then boot loops. every time this happens I have to reinstall windows as nothing that I was doing would stop it from boot looping.
I have tried taking out my m.2 and just trying to fresh install windows onto both my hard drive and smaller SSD separately but the same thing happens when I go to update my drivers. I have run windows memory diagnostic with no errors and honestly have no clue what to do next. any help would be hugely appreciated.
my specs are,
ASUS GeForce GTX 1060 3GB Dual-Fan OC Edition
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6 Core
ASRock B450 Steel Legend ATX motherboard
Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB RAM 2 x 8GB

 

[kerberos_20]

if drivers from windows update works, then something isnt right
open gpu-z and post picture from it

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