Windows 10 update distorts screen into neon colours

razdevin

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Newly built computer, my windows 10 install was not up to date, and I also needed to update my graphics drivers which were apparently severely out of date. All attempts to update the graphics drivers returned messages saying "not compatible with your version of windows", despite triple checking that I got the right version (windows 10 64-bit). I read that I should update windows to solve this problem, not knowing how out of date it was, and did so. However, the screen became totally unbearable to look at, with a lot of text becoming nearly impossible to read due to the distortion and discoloration.

It did solve some problems, although it was difficult to parse, I could see that the device manager was properly identifying my graphics card. I thought the issue might be the out of date display drivers, and updated them. I was actually able to update them now, but it didn't fix the display. Restarting the PC after doing so also didn't fix it. Restarting in Safe Mode removes the distortion, but I don't know how to remove it permanently. I tried rolling the update back and reinstalling it and got the same result.

I've tried to search for solutions to this online and the few I found didn't work, such as updating the display drivers, rolling the display drivers back (this crashed the PC every time I tried to do it), and one specific one involving disabling two triggers on the calibration loader task in the task scheduler. It's fairly frustrating because I think I need to install this busted update first to fix it, but I can't see anything properly, and if I roll the update back, it takes almost all day to download it again before I can try some new fix.

My graphics card is a GeForce GTX 1060 Mini ITX OC 3GB if that helps.
 
Try this: use DDU (http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/faq/id-2767677/perform-clean-install-video-card-drivers.html) to clean out all old video drivers you may have, then re-install latest drivers from Nvidia. If there are software incompatibilities in your current system, to which those symptoms point, that should do it. Hope it helps! :)
 


Hi, I'm not done with this yet because the new drivers are still downloading, but using DDU did help. After using it, my screen returned to normal, and I started to download new drivers from nvidia's site. However, while the drivers were downloading, I left my PC for about 30 minutes and when I returned, the colours had become severely distorted again. The new drivers haven't even finished downloading yet, so I have no idea what might have caused this, as I closed everything besides the driver download. It might also be worth noting that DDU recommended it be used in Safe Mode, but I wasn't able to do that because for some reason trying to reboot in Safe Mode just left my computer hanging on a black screen for a minute or two before shutting itself down, and turning it back on booted it normally, so I used DDU outside of safe mode.

After a bit more searching I found somebody else whose problem matches mine exactly
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3552310/distorted-display-problem.html
The display only being distorted on the native resolution, uninstalling drivers leaving me with microsoft basic display adapter, downloading drivers directly from nvidia doesn't solve it and all drivers cause the distortion. I'm connected by HDMI, and I've tried two monitors and both had the same problem. This person's problem wasn't resolved. I'm wondering if the only solution is just to keep the nvidia drivers uninstalled so I can actually use the computer, and just have it not able to play any of the games I built it for. Because no combination of uninstalling and reinstalling drivers or changing monitors or anything else has solved this, and the few cases I can find of other people encountering this problem were never resolved.