[SOLVED] Windows doesn't boot after installing GPU drivers ?

[Sxlver]

Hello folks,

I have recently set up my new mining rig build, installed Windows, and got it to boot after a little desperation.

What I did first was install the graphics card drivers through GeForce Experience, but whilst installing them Windows decided to crash (no BSOD, just straight up crashed) and ever since then it does that every time I try to boot Windows (It crashes once the computer actually tries to boot Windows, so it gets past the bios boot screen thingy).

Components:

• Mainboard: Q270 Pro BTC+ ASRock
• CPU: I7-7600k
• RAM: 8GB DDR4 Corsair vengeance
• GPU: Currently only running a 2080 TI

Now, each time I try to boot it crashes and after 2-3 crashes it puts me into this windows problem-solving screen

Now, I am just assuming my graphics driver has become corrupt or something like that, but I am also assuming that the crash whilst installing the graphics driver was caused by the graphics driver itself. Could it be that Geforce Experience installed a graphics driver that wasn't the right one ?

Any hint on how to resolve this issue is welcome.

 

[Colif]

on that blue screen,

you could pick system restore and see if there is a restore point before you installed GPU drivers (it should have made one)

or

choose command prompt

Enter these BOLD commands and press ENTER after each.

(Note the colon after C with no space; then the spaces which are important - one after T before / & T before { & } before B & Y before L)

C:

BCDEDIT /SET {DEFAULT} BOOTMENUPOLICY LEGACY

EXIT

now restart PC and "immediately" start tapping F8 (That means power button - then F8).

Hopefully that should get you into Safe Mode.

I guess you best remove gpu drivers in device manager if you can get that far.
geforce experience likely runs a test on your pc to see what you have and then installs a driver that should work with it. If card crashes installing drivers, it could be the card at fault.
Was windows up to date? had you got all the updates for it?

 

[Sxlver]

on that blue screen,

you could pick system restore and see if there is a restore point before you installed GPU drivers (it should have made one)

or

choose command prompt

Enter these BOLD commands and press ENTER after each.

(Note the colon after C with no space; then the spaces which are important - one after T before / & T before { & } before B & Y before L)

C:

BCDEDIT /SET {DEFAULT} BOOTMENUPOLICY LEGACY

EXIT

now restart PC and "immediately" start tapping F8 (That means power button - then F8).

Hopefully that should get you into Safe Mode.

I guess you best remove gpu drivers in device manager if you can get that far.
geforce experience likely runs a test on your pc to see what you have and then installs a driver that should work with it. If card crashes installing drivers, it could be the card at fault.
Was windows up to date? had you got all the updates for it?

Thanks for the response!

I've got the newest updates for windows installed and the GPU has worked flawlessly before mounting it onto the rig.

I guess I'll boot into safe mode and remove the driver for now. However, I will need the graphics driver anyways, should I just go with an older driver and see if that works?

I will also try switching to another card but I would be surprised (or more over, disappointed) if the GPU died whilst mounting it onto the rig as it has I have tested it before installing it on the rig.

 

[Colif]

If you can get into windows normal mode after uninstalling the drivers, I would make sure nothing left over from failed install by running this in safe mode - https://forums.tomshardware.com/faq...n-install-of-your-video-card-drivers.2402269/
and then maybe run windows update and let it find drivers for the GPU - they are from Nvidia, just a little older and perhaps more stable.
If they don't work, then I would go to the website of the GPU maker, as some of them have their own drivers (which are also from Nvidia, but older and if any drivers should work with card, its Makers versions).