My brother out of nowhere has begun getting these blue screens within about a minute of turning his laptop on what can we try to do?
#Brother having blue screens
eager marlin
finite dagger
My brother out of nowhere has begun getting these blue screens within about a mi...
specs
and had the laptop long?
stoic idol
Make sure drivers are up to date. Reinstall affected driver.
With a laptop can just download from manufacturer website and then update gpu.
Should be easier than trying to pinpoint the driver affected by doing this
rocky vine
My brother out of nowhere has begun getting these blue screens within about a mi...
Does it get stuck on 0%?
Does that say nvpcf.sys at the bottom?
eager marlin
and had the laptop long?
Only about 2 years
Specs are gtx 1650, i5 11300h, 16gb ram, 512gb ssd
eager marlin
Does it get stuck on 0%?
Does that say nvpcf.sys at the bottom?
Nah it goes up and restarts then he boots it up about a minute later another blue screen same message cycle repeats
eager marlin
Does it get stuck on 0%?
Does that say nvpcf.sys at the bottom?
here’s a clearer pic
stoic idol
Sounds like a corrupted driver interacting with windows directly
eager marlin
Ohh okay
How can we go about fixing it? I’m going to his place tomorrow I can try to help him then
stoic idol
If it’s a new laptop take it back. If it’s not download the manufacturers chipset drivers to usb. Clean install windows yourself
Then reinstall everything.
eager marlin
That’s rough, how can this even happen? Everything was fine for quite some time
stoic idol
Errors happen. Can be a new driver installed that doesn’t work right. Could be a virus. Could just be dumb luck.
rocky vine
here’s a clearer pic
It's part of the Nvidia driver.
It should boot to the recovery mode after three interrupted startups in a row
It might be happening just as the startup is finished if you aren't seeing that.
As soon as you see the spinning circle for Windows, hold the power button. Repeat three times and see if that brings up the recovery menu.
From there we can try entering safe mode (With networking) and running DDU to remove the GPU driver.