Black screen after installing drivers or rebooting

telgou

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So I was playing the other day and suddenly my screen went black and then the famous " Display Driver Stopped Responding and Has Recovered" appeared and I think I tried to start playing again but this time the famous blue screen of sudden death appeared and the pc rebotted and a black screen appeared after win 10 logo and then the pc runs for a while and reboots in a loop.
I went into safe mode and managed to unistall Drivers(I think) and everything worked after rebooting but when I try install the drivers again the screen either goes black during the installation or after rebooting and the problem happens again.
My gpu is probably is probably not dead since I tried playing without drivers and worked and I didnt experience any screen artifacts.
I have an msi gtx 680 lighting that is 3 years old.
CPU: I7 3770k
I will edit motherboard and psu later.
I saw many people having same kind of problem before and recently.
 
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Hmm, can't really tell if it will make a difference but please do try. Anything we can do, we should. Use DDU beforehand, of course.
If your motherboard has another PCIe slot, try that as well. I had an issue with my GPU a few weeks back and it turned out to be a busted PCIe slot.

All I can think of, other than what we already tried, would be testing your GPU in another system. A friends PC or so.

telgou

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Thx for answering, yeah I used ddu to unistall the drivers (in safe mode) and I made sure of that by going to the driver installation which tells if I already have a driver installed(normal mode)
 

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Hmm, can't really tell if it will make a difference but please do try. Anything we can do, we should. Use DDU beforehand, of course.
If your motherboard has another PCIe slot, try that as well. I had an issue with my GPU a few weeks back and it turned out to be a busted PCIe slot.

All I can think of, other than what we already tried, would be testing your GPU in another system. A friends PC or so.
 
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