Windows 10: NVIDIA GTX Force 660 bricks Windows 10 with Black Screen of Death

Yesterdday morning, on latest Windows 10 version, eveyrthing worked great. I shut the computer off, and turned it on again several hours later to receive the logo on start up and then a black screen of death, with monitor showcasing "No Signal". - Monitor is not the problem, I have plugged it to other computers, works fine- HDMI cable is not the problem, I have plugged it to the same monitor to other computers, works fineI did a brand new clean install of Windows 10. - Display resolution max is 1024, when monitor can display and has 1920px- This is the common stopping and reverting to point

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NVIDIA GTX Force 660 bricks Windows 10 with Black Screen of Death

Yesterday morning, on latest Windows 10 version, eveyrthing worked great. I shut the computer off, and turned it on again several hours later to receive the logo on start up and then a black screen of death, with monitor showcasing "No Signal".

- Monitor is not the problem, I have plugged it to other computers, works fine

- HDMI cable is not the problem, I have plugged it to the same monitor to other computers, works fine

I did a brand new clean install of Windows 10.

- Display resolution max is 1024, when monitor can display (and has) 1920px

- This is the common stopping and reverting to point for all the following trials.

- I tried downloading drivers from NVIDIA for GTX Force 660 (32 and 64 bits)
- When installing all these scenarios ended up in a black screen of death that forced me to systme restore or do a clean install again because restore wasn't working.

- Installing with GeForce Experience 64 and 32 bits

- Installing without GeForce Experience 64 and 32 bits
- Installing view Windows Device Manager

For all of them, I uninstall drivers using DDU, to make sure the driver I am installing is the only one.

I understand the problem is within the graphics card drivers, because the black screen of death disappears as soon as Safe Mode is started. During Safe Mode I uninstall GTX Force 660, then restart, go to Windows Updates, let it find the driver through that. But afterwards, black screen of death by the third computer start. Not only is it a black screen of death, after a few second monitor is completely dark with the message "No Signal".

Windows key + P or Ctrl + Alt + Del , DOES NOT WORK.

What else can I do? It's so frustrating when there's no errors that can help debug what is wrong, specially since it was working yesterday in the morning, and between shutting it off and turning it on at night it broke.

Specs:

- Asus H87 PRO (motherboard)
- GTX Force 660

- 500GB SSD

- RAM 16.0 GB

- Intel i7-4770 CPU @ 3.4GHz

- OS at 64 bitsUP

 

NVIDIA GTX Force 660 bricks Windows 10 with Black Screen of Death

Did you update the motherboard bios?

No. Should I? (why?)

It could be a physical problem with the video card.

The steps I described showcase it´s not a problem with the card.

- In Safe Mode DDU clean removal of NVIDIA drivers
- Restart works normally, I can sign in to my Windows Account

- Un Windows Update Check, and it downloads NVIVIA drivers
- NVIDIA Drivers are installed, I can use the screen just fine as long as I don´t shut or restart the computer. Here's a print screen





Problem comes up when I shut the computer off after I have installed the drivers. It dies on start up, right when the window logos is supposed to appear, I get black screen of death.

 

NVIDIA GTX Force 660 bricks Windows 10 with Black Screen of Death

Hi!

I did use that exact tool to make sure I wiped the computer clean of any drivers from GTX Force 660. Nonetheless, the problem persists

Here are the event logs , sysinfo is in there as well.

There is no Minidump folder that I can share:





Thanks!