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median reef Jan 10, 2026, 4:38 AM

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hey guys, issue is making me dumbfounded, pc just froze last night, decided to restart the system, but as it booted, it keeps slapping me with a bsod TDR failure, so I ddu'd my pc in safe mode, and reinstalled nvidia drivers, crashed while installing so decided to be the best time to switch to win 11, all was well, installing chipset drivers and such, but when it came to nvidia drivers it always crashed my pc, I assume that my hardware is good because im able to use it but just when i start to install nvidia driver it craps itself. maybe u guys can shed light to the issue cuz nothings been working so far. TIA

ember current Jan 10, 2026, 4:43 AM

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well a tdr failure according to the all mighty google says it's a video failure and can have several sources... so i guess the first question is whats the system setup?

median reef Jan 10, 2026, 4:49 AM

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ow lol forgot to include specs sorry
Ryzen 5 3600
GTX 1050ti 4gb
A320m pro vh
512 WD NVMe
1tb Seagate HDD
550w psu

ember current Jan 10, 2026, 4:51 AM

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what were you trying to do or what happened?

median reef Jan 10, 2026, 4:55 AM

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was in a google meet, then pc froze with a buzzing sound from the headset, decided to wait a few minutes before resetting it, then it kept boot looping, until i got fed up and decided to just do a clean install of win 11 for peace of mind, but yeah, when im installing nvidia it just freezes then continues to bsod with TDR failure

ember current Jan 10, 2026, 4:56 AM

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so you reinstalled windows did you start from a fresh install or was it a backup copy?

median reef Jan 10, 2026, 4:56 AM

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fresh install

ember current Jan 10, 2026, 4:57 AM

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do you have another pc you can try the card in?

median reef Jan 10, 2026, 4:57 AM

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asked a friend to make a bootable media for me

median reef Jan 10, 2026, 4:57 AM

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ember current do you have another pc you can try the card in?

that i dont have

ember current Jan 10, 2026, 4:57 AM

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what about your buddy?

median reef Jan 10, 2026, 4:58 AM

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hes on a laptop sadly

ember current Jan 10, 2026, 4:58 AM

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ahhh

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are you close to any major city and have a best buy or something close by you can take the pc to to get the parts tested?

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cause if windows reinstall didn't solve it, it sounds hardware to me

median reef Jan 10, 2026, 5:00 AM

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i dont really trust the shop at the mall because they tried to rip me off for drive

ember current Jan 10, 2026, 5:00 AM

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bad windows drive bad gpu or something might have failed or is failing

median reef Jan 10, 2026, 5:01 AM

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apparently it likes the microsoft basic display drivers tho

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thats how i am using the pc currrently

ember current Jan 10, 2026, 5:01 AM

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are you trying to run the latest driver from nvidia?

median reef Jan 10, 2026, 5:01 AM

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yep

ember current Jan 10, 2026, 5:01 AM

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ohh well that would explain it 1 sec

median reef Jan 10, 2026, 5:02 AM

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thinking if i need an old copy of the drivers cuz its an old card but the vids say that i should update it not the other way around lol

ember current Jan 10, 2026, 5:02 AM

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yeah I'm looking up the driver i'm using in my server with the 1080 1 sec

median reef Jan 10, 2026, 5:03 AM

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ayt

ember current Jan 10, 2026, 5:04 AM

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566.36-desktop-win10-win11-64bit-international-nsd-dch-whql.exe
https://www.guru3d.com/download/geforce-56636-whql-driver-download/

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this is the last driver that supports the 10 series

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you can grab it from here or search the nvidia archives for it

median reef Jan 10, 2026, 5:05 AM

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is it the same one from their website?

ember current Jan 10, 2026, 5:05 AM

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it's from last december

median reef Jan 10, 2026, 5:05 AM

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cuz when i go to the nvidia website it asks me what make and model my card is so i can download the right drivers for it

ember current Jan 10, 2026, 5:05 AM

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the drive is from nvidia they just put it in a folder to put their spam

median reef Jan 10, 2026, 5:06 AM

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median reef cuz when i go to the nvidia website it asks me what make and model my card is so...

thats what ive been doing the past tries

ember current Jan 10, 2026, 5:06 AM

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you can ignore the files and grab the exe and remove the guru3d stuff or just get it from nvidia

median reef Jan 10, 2026, 5:06 AM

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ayt ayt

ember current Jan 10, 2026, 5:07 AM

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I think the new drivers are like 590.something or maybe 600's now

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https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/237794/

NVIDIA

Driver Details | NVIDIA

Download the <dd~LanguageName> <dd~Name> for <dd~OSName> systems. Released <dd~ReleaseDateTime>

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https://uk.download.nvidia.com/Windows/566.36/566.36-desktop-win10-win11-64bit-international-nsd-dch-whql.exe

median reef Jan 10, 2026, 5:09 AM

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this was the one i was downloading the past couple of tries

ember current Jan 10, 2026, 5:10 AM

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use the older driver, that is the latest one and it doesn't support the 10 series anymore

median reef Jan 10, 2026, 5:10 AM

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ahhh okok

ember current Jan 10, 2026, 5:10 AM

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I use a 1080 in my server and i run the 566.36 drivers with no problems

median reef Jan 10, 2026, 5:12 AM

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ill let u know when sumthn comes up, currently downloading, download speed is in the KBs bruh

ember current Jan 10, 2026, 5:13 AM

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no worries hopefully those drivers help

median reef Jan 10, 2026, 5:27 AM

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welp, back in safe mode

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should i ddu and download an earlier driver?

ember current Jan 10, 2026, 5:30 AM

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well if you downloaded the 566.36 driver you should ddu the drivers windows has now and try those, if it doesn't work and the windows drivers from 2017 work.. run em, just don't expect them to run games all that well

median reef Jan 10, 2026, 5:31 AM

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ayt ayt

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