Windows 10 Windows won't boot with NVIDIA driver enabled

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Dawid Oosthuizen

As soon as the video driver gets updated from the Microsoft Basic Display Adapter (10.0.19041.1 from 21/06/2006) to a newer driver, either the NVIDIA driver Windows finds somewhere by itself, or to one of the official drivers from NVIDIA's site (I've tried versions 451.77, 446.14, and 442.92), the display goes black (no BSOD, monitor completely loses signal), and a few seconds the machine restarts.


It fails to boot 3 times and goes to recovery. I can boot in safe mode and disable the GPU in device manager to boot normally, but if I then enable the device again the same occurs (monitor loses signal, system restarts). Event viewer shows an Error in System log:

The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x00000116 (0xffff9b0fbbb62010, 0xfffff807d2e8a998, 0xffffffffc0000001, 0x0000000000000005). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\MEMORY.DMP. Report Id: d5cbd817-be14-4d25-a1b4-2ae4c91be80b.​

I can provide provide the 1.13GB MEMORY.DMP file via OneDrive if it'll help anyone.


Running Windows 10 Pro for Workstations, updated to version 2004.

Motherboard is ASRock Rack ROMED8-2T (latest bios, 1.10).

CPU is AMD EPYC 7232P.

RAM is 4x 16GB Samsung RDIMMs 3200MHz (M393A2K40DB3-CWEBQ+).

SSD is 2TB M.2 Samsung 970 EVO Plus.

GPU is MSI Geforce GTX1080 Gaming X 8G.


I have tried a complete reinstall of Windows. I have tried uninstalling (checked yes to delete drivers) of the GPU. I have tried installing the nvidia drivers in safe mode (completes, but doesn't boot normally afterwards).

Have tried various bios options:
1) VGA set to external, slot 6 (GPU is in PCIE6): problem as described above.
2) VGA set to internal: Windows does not start, BSOD indicates a VIDEO_TDR_ERROR.
3) 4G Decoding enabled or disabled seems to have no effect: same problem as above.
4) Secure boot is disabled, but same problem when enabled.

5) CSM disabled, or enabled (video as legacy or as UEFI), or custom (default settings): same problem as above.

There is also an Ubuntu 20.04 Desktop installation as dual boot, and that works perfectly, with GPU enabled and graphics accelerated. GPU has also been tested in another system and works fine with no issues, so do not suspect a GPU hardware problem. I have also tried another of the exact same GPU (the intention is to run both GPUs for compute applications), and I have also tried with the GPU in a different PCI slot.

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