Installing NVidia Drivers causes Windows 10 Black Screen

ThatOneGUyThar

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Okay sweet Jesus this issue has been making me consider cyanide and bleach for a while now.


Back story.

I had a custom build from 2011 with the following specs:
Operating System: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
BIOS: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
GPU: Saphire Radeon HD 7850 2GB
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-3220 CPU @ 3.30GHz (4 CPUs), ~3.3GHz
Memory: 8192MB RAM

And yaknow, it worked fine. No issues. Then Black friday came along and I upgraded my GPU to the 1050ti Founders Edition. Installed it, everything worked fine then suddenly I got a blue screen error. (VIDEO_TDR_FAILIURE)

Sweet Jesus I tried every solution to try and fix this. Reinstalled the GPU, Format the PC multiple times, reinstall the drivers with multiple versions, swap out the PSU for a bigger unit, reset the CMOS battery, etc. Finally, I used an old laptop to download an old 2016 windows 10 iso and installed that with ZERO drivers and have one by one redownloaded them. It's been working fine, except I can not download the drivers.

As of writing this, the newest version is 388.59. However; I have tried installing (through the nvidia installer, the windows device manager automatically and the windows device manager manually) that version, 388.43, AND 388.31. None of them work. Whenever I try to install them through any means it gets about halfway through the installation and then every peripheral turns off (both monitors, mouse, deadass everything) and then it soft bricks; going into a boot loop until I have to boot into safe mode and reinstall the basic microsoft windows adapter.

What I do know:
\\No it isn't the card, I installed it into another build and it worked perfectly
\\Zero overclocking or modifications to clock speeds
\\Safe mode works fine when the drivers are installed, so I know it is that
\\my OS automatically updated to the "fall creators" update, so it isn't outdated software
\\As of now, the only third party software I have installed is CPU-Z, Driver Booster 5, and google Chrome.


Any ideas on how to get the NVidia drivers to work?

Thanks,
Eli.