Windows 10: "amdkmafd.sys" "0xc000007b" BSOD during install of AMD drivers

The following was displayed in 'Automatic Repair' on startup:

"The operating system couldn't be loaded because a critical system driver is missing or contains errors"
"amdkmafd.sys" "0xc000007b"

I had installed the new windows 10 anniversary update (1607) and after finally sorting out everything to my liking I decided to boot up Radeon Settings to see if there was an update for the driver from AMD.

I was greeted with a message saying that the AMD driver was either missing or wasn't working properly and that I should go to AMD to download and install the correct driver.

Obviously confused as to why it would be missing or had errors I continued to download AMD's auto driver detect tool and ran it.

In the 'checkbox' stage of AMD's auto detect tool I saw that under all the items was a message saying that no version of that item was installed which I found rather weird that the drivers don't exist and the culprit initially points to the windows update I just completed.

I continued with the install and it was at that point when I experienced the BSOD.
The computer didn't restart after the BSOD so after some waiting I restarted it manually.

It then booted into Automatic Repair and the obvious route after the computer won't start due to the missing or corrupted system driver would be to use a recovery disk or USB.
Sadly I have neither.
(I have restore points but obviously can't get to them)

(I can't use the BSOD dump analysing tool for obvious reasons)

Any response would be greatly appreciated.

:)

 

" SOFTWARE UPDATE FAILED "

SO HERE'S THE LINK TO THAT PIC

http://i26.tinypic.com/2ihbdco.jpg

CAN U PLZ CHECK IT ACTUALLY I HAVE USED THE NOKIA SOFTWARE UPDATER B4 ... BUT I DONT KNW WHY I M GETTING THIS ERROR NOW

 

" SOFTWARE UPDATE FAILED "

i have installed windows xp sp2

previously i was using windows media center i thought i might b facing this probs due to that but then i changed it to windows xp ! n moreover i have also shown to nokia service center executives but they were not having the latest updates available ......
my pc suite is showing that new update version of firmware is available but i cudnt download it

oh gawd wat to do ?

i tried in another pc then again i got an error u need to have minimum 256 ram

please cant it b rectified ? there must b any solution to this probs please help me guyz

god bless all of u thanx

 

Hi GhostCatcher,

Welcome to the 10forums *Smile

I would need you to get into the troubleshooting options. After 3 failures of boot attempts you should get there automatically.
In the troubleshooting options, please run Automatic Repair at least 3 times with a reboot between each.
You may also want to go to the advanced troubleshooting options, open command prompt and enter following command
Code: chkdsk C: /r[/quote] Run this command also at least 3 times with a reboot between each.

After that, try to boot again and let me know if you can boot succesful *Smile

 

Thanks for the reply! *Smile

Every single time I boot it says:
'Preparing Automatic Repair'
Then goes into a screen titled: 'recovery' with the following options:

Press Enter to try again
Press F8 for Start-up Settings
Press ESC for UEFI Firmware Settings

(Top one is to retry startup)
(Second details settings useless to me - Safe Mode and such)
(Third is bios which is also useless at this moment in time)

These aren't titled 'troubleshooting options' and there is not way to 'run' automatic repair.

I'm sorry if I seem incompetent

 

Choose F8, disable driver signature enforcement and see if you can boot, else try to boot into safe mode with the startup settings.
From safe mode we can try a few things.

 

Can't boot with driver signature enforcement disabled and can't boot into Safe Mode *Sad

 

There is only 1 safe mode.

Could you create a recovery media *Arrow Recovery Drive - Create in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums with another system?

 

I could create a recovery media on a USB with another system.

Would I only be using the recovery media to get into 'advanced options' when in 'troubleshoot' or would I have to use the recovery media to reinstall windows and lose all my data?

 

You're going to use the recovery media to see if we can get a solution for your problem. Reinstalling Windows is a last resort.

 

Thanks, I will now create the recovery media and will get back to you when I'm done *Smile

 

I have created and loaded up the recovery USB onto my computer.
I then opened up Command Prompt in advanced options and ran:
chkdsk C: r/
After completion I restarted the computer and it booted up into windows *Biggrin *Smile

Since the BSOD was caused when installing AMD Drivers after bootup of Radeon Settings showed a message (and still does)
'No AMD Graphics driver is installed, or the AMD driver is not functioning properly'

Trying to do the exact same process as last time may cause the same BSOD so my best guess is to use DDU and then install the drivers.
What do you think?

 

Good, please try follow this guide *Arrow Troubleshooting stop 0x7B and stop 0xED. - Windows 7 Help Forums

 

I decided to use DDU and then try to reinstall the AMD drivers.

DDU successfully completed but during the install of the AMD drivers it said that it couldn't be installed.

After a restart I ended up with the same dialog upon opening of Radeon Settings:

'No AMD Graphics driver is installed, or the AMD driver is not functioning properly'

 

Please don't edit a post after a reply from someone else, the changes won't be noticed unless someone goes through the thread.

Could you tell me how you try to install, is this done by simply executing the download or by manual installation?