Windows 10: Windows 11 goes to blue screen when installing Video Driver for NVIDIA

Hi, I have recently updated to windows 11, and it all worked fine until I tried connecting an external screen, the HDMI did not recognize the projector, nor any other screen/projector. I looked at the device manager and found out the graphics adapter was not correctly installed, I have a Lenovo Legion, with an NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1050, so I downloaded the drivers from the manufacturer's site, it started installing fine, finished and prompted for restart, however upon restart as soon as I logged on, the screen went blue reporting error and restarting, and after a restart, it was not able to acce

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PC goes into black screen and froze

Yeah I'm pretty sure that's not a software related issue which is why I was suggesting that you remove the video card to start with since it's such an easy process of elimination step.

I'm not familiar with AMD CPUs, I did see that you had listed in your system specs but I had no idea whether or not it has an iGPU

Is there any possibility of you being able to get your hands on any compatible video card at all?it would be the easiest step to try to troubleshoot or at least one of the easier ones. You should be able to get into the bios without anything but A display cable hooked up to the motherboard

 

I cant get drivers to install

Read my guide, goes step buy step for nvidia driver install. Though I use a different driver cause I got 8 series, same method of installation

 

Blue Screen

Hi,





Blue screens could be caused by problems with your computer’s hardware or with its driver. Still, we
would like to know more about the issue. Please clarify the following:

• Did you get a STOP code?
• Did you install any hardware or driver recently?

For basic troubleshooting steps to resolve blue screen errors, we suggest checking out this
article and simply follow the steps.



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