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Question

My computer keeps freezing when I boot it up

Aug 5, 2018 3:30PM PDT

I power it on and the normal stuff shows. First the bios motherboard window, then the windows booting but after the circle goes around a couple of times it seems to lag. Shortly after that the screen flashes black then comes back on, the circle is laggy and spins away leaving me with a fully black screen. This happens all before I even get the option to log into an account or anything. I’m on windows 10, my motherboard is a MSI Z170A SLI and my graphics card is a GTX 1080 windforce OC edition. This all started after one time when I was playing arma right after I installed a new hard drive and updated a windows driver. The pc crashed and made a constant buz cause I shot right before the crash happened, I tried to power off but pressing the power button didn’t help and ever since that happened what I described before has been happening. Please help

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Clarification Request
Also...
Aug 5, 2018 3:50PM PDT

Now I think ab it I also downloaded a new driver for my graphics card from the nvidia website, and gigabyte wesite bc that’s who made my GPU

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If they're from the makers...
Aug 5, 2018 3:56PM PDT

that;s fine. Driver update software is known to break the OS.
Dafydd.

Post was last edited on August 5, 2018 3:59 PM PDT

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Answer
"Updated a windows driver".
Aug 5, 2018 3:35PM PDT

Where did this driver come from?
Dafydd.

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Response
Aug 5, 2018 3:47PM PDT

When I went in my settings and asked windows to search for drivers that needed updating it started downloading this new one

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Have you made backups of your data?
Aug 5, 2018 3:54PM PDT
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How do I??
Aug 5, 2018 4:01PM PDT

I don’t think I have, I have my windows OS disk and I’ve tried to reset my oc but it says that "there was a problem reseting your pc"

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Keep in mind
Aug 5, 2018 4:03PM PDT

My pc crashes before I can even log in or anything, it crashes right after where it says what button to open bios and stuff after windows tried to load, I can’t even get to my desktop or login screen, also safe startup won’t work, it just crashes at the same spot

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If you had Win 10..
Aug 5, 2018 4:07PM PDT

and it was activated, you can use the link I gave to make a DVD/USB to reinst Win 1o OS.
If that doesn't cure it, it's likely hardware related.
Dafydd.

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If I already have...
Aug 5, 2018 4:26PM PDT

Windows 10 on a disc do I need to make a new one???

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Same problem here
Aug 6, 2018 8:42AM PDT

I am also facing same problem but got few solution here, Thanks

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What did you do??
Aug 6, 2018 11:30AM PDT

What did U do to fix yours??

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Do it in a professional manner
Aug 7, 2018 2:45AM PDT

Seems that the issue appeared soon after you downloaded wrong components for the driver from my setting page on Windows.
I have no idea about how was that operated, but from my perspective, if you were not so experienced with drivers, especially in a new operating syestem, you should find and trust a professional driver tool to help you out of the dilemma, the one I am personally using is SnailDriver, the fastest one with highest success rate I've ever used.
At least, people behind such kind of tools are definitely know better about driver than myself, so I just need to find the one that can best suit my needs and be widely trusted.

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How do you feel about driver updaters?
Aug 7, 2018 7:03AM PDT
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As mentioned
Aug 7, 2018 6:23PM PDT

Hi,
Not sure which driver updaters bring you the pains. As mentioned, for most of moderators, like you, a driver-updating software is a fifth wheel even a detrimental as you guys have been well learned how the driver updating works and where to find the right components in a short time. While for beginners like me, driver updating is a hard and fairly time-consuming task often, since I have little expertise on it, I have to carefully select and find the right tool for me.
I also read the article you quoted.
IMHO, it is just a one-sided story, as nearly the whole article is a negative review of a junk driver-updating software. I hate that kind of fraud whilst I believe a conclusion that came out of an extreme instance is not a truth. Also, being different from that example in the article, there are actually a slew of driver updaters that are available to use for free, including SnailDriver, the one I mentioned.

Post was last edited on August 7, 2018 7:15 PM PDT

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Let me be clear. These create problems.
Aug 7, 2018 9:11PM PDT

I've seen folk use such, succeed and then these apps update drivers when all was working well and tank the PC. The user can't recovery, the updater app support fails and then folks like me get to straighten it out.

I've seen folk buy a new laptop rather than get it fixed.

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Drivers
Aug 8, 2018 12:21AM PDT

Yes manually updating drivers can be a little cryptic.

Where folks go wrong is not having a complete system backup before running that updater app.

If the machine turns up busted just spin in the backup and fixed.

I would only use the updater manually.