1. "safe mode with networking and worked for about 10 minutes then the screen started to mess up"
2. "4-5 years old"
This does not sound like a driver or software issue but heat or failing GPU. Did you try canned air cleaning of the GPU's heat sink?
Is the fan working on the GPU?
And if that doesn't clear it up, try new heatsink compound on the GPU since at that many years it can dry and crack.
Hello guy and gals my computer recently has been getting the error Display driver has stopped responding and has recovered " Display driver NVIDA windows Kernal mode driver, version 352.86 stopped responding. After it blue screened I tried safe mode where I no longer got the error. Tried to turn it back on worked for a second then blue screened again. Tried safe mode with networking and worked for about 10 minutes then the screen started to mess up. Tried to download a gpu updated driver in safe mode, but it would not let me. Tried a normal boot one last time and it immediately blue screened.
Computer is 4-5 years old windows 7 gtx 580 gpu , can provide more details if needed.

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