Windows 10: Can't upgrade to Windows 11, crash due to GPU driver?

Hello. I have touble upgrading to Windows 11, I have NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 current version 31.0.15.5161, date 2/15/2024. Problem is whenever I update the GPU driver any further, the system crashes on reboot with a beep every sec, a simple reset seems to fix this problem by rolling back to this version. Now when the first update to Windows 11 from Win10, I noticed certain resolution changes, then the system hangs/crashes followed by beeps, I hit reset, and this cancels the installation, I followed your advice from a previous question on steps to do a disk cleanup after a failed installation.

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GPU Drivers Crash Entire System Instantly. Multiple GPU's Tested

Hello,

I'm hoping for some advice. As the title suggests, I have a strange issue with my system. Last week while playing a game, my computer randomly crashed. Over the weekend it progressively got worse to the point where it would crash anytime the drivers for the GPU got updated. Thinking it was a faulty GPU (I had an old 970) I bought a new AMD 9700 XTX, however, I've run into the same problem. The computer runs completely fine until I enable any driver that isn't the Microsoft Basic Display Driver. Once enabling the driver for either GPU the system immediately crashes and the system can only be rebooted after going into safe mode and disabling the driver or using a system restore. Device viewer sometimes does not show the PCIE device (in this case the GPU) and then sometimes does show it correctly. However, it always recognizes something is in the port. To me this could be a faulty Mobo or drivers not being installed after a fresh windows install.

What I've tried so far with no luck:

• Fresh clean installs of Windows 10/11 twice
  
• Rolling back drivers
  
• Trying two different GPUs
  
• Running Memtest 64 for 3-4 hours (no errors)
  
• Turning off PBO and other similar features.
  
• Visually inspecting the mobo for obvious damage of which I see none
  

I only have one PCIE port (mini ITX board) so I can't test other slots, unfortunately. Reliability History and Event Viewer both say the same thing: "System Thread Exception Not Handled. What failed: (the driver I enabled be it AMD or Nvidia)". Other than this, there are no problems with the system. Any ideas about what the issue could be? MOBO or maybe PSU? The PSU is very strong as it's less than one-year-old Corsair SFF 750 W Platinum. I also don't game heavy by nature of not having a ton of time and, up until a week ago, only having a 970 GPU which simply isn't capable of anything too demanding these days.

Any ideas would be very much appreciated. My specs are below:

• Windows 11 Home
  
• AMD 3700X (no overclocking at all)
  
• Aorus X570i Mother Board
  
• AMD 7900 XTX (or 970)
  
• 500 GB NVME SSD and 250GB SATA SSD (I tried installing the OS on both in case of MOBO issues)
  
• 16 GB 3600 RAM
  
• 750W Platiunum Corsair SFF PSU
  

 

Computer crashing due to DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION code 133

Hi, yes, technically, it might be due to game system requirements, in addition, since we have done clean installation of the GPU driver it should be all good, however, if same, let us eliminate any software-related issues on the PC, I suggest doing an in-place upgrade wherein it will upgrade the device to the latest version and repair all issues without deleting any files.

Kindly follow the steps from this link:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/for...

 

GPU-Z 0.8.7 crash on launch

W1zzard is asking you to test so that he can suggest next steps and be able to troubleshoot the issue you have.
If another version works, it would be one set of steps.
If several other versions also fail/crash, then it would be another.