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Hi everyone,
Just wanted to put a serious warning out there to any about to update their nvidia drivers. I went to update mine like normal and it failed. I then proceeded to try again and it worked. Then the real fun began. I’ve gone from having no GPU stats, to getting the stats back, to countless bsod’s. And now not being able to use my laptop at all. Luckily I got my computer working long enough to transfer some important files of mine onto a hard drive. I tried a system restore to go back to when the problematic driver was installed. But a bsod got in the way of it completing. Now I can’t even factory reset etc. Absolutely nothing is working to fix my pc. Important files have suddenly disappeared that are behind the os itself. Problem after problem. Now I have to go and get my laptop wiped completely and windows reinstalled. All caused by trying to update a autonomous graphics driver. Thanks a million Nvidia. I have updated my driver many times before, they always made me nervous but never had any problems. It is highly likely you won’t either. Just make sure you back up everything beforehand just in case.
Just wanted to put a serious warning out there to any about to update their nvidia drivers. I went to update mine like normal and it failed. I then proceeded to try again and it worked. Then the real fun began. I’ve gone from having no GPU stats, to getting the stats back, to countless bsod’s. And now not being able to use my laptop at all. Luckily I got my computer working long enough to transfer some important files of mine onto a hard drive. I tried a system restore to go back to when the problematic driver was installed. But a bsod got in the way of it completing. Now I can’t even factory reset etc. Absolutely nothing is working to fix my pc. Important files have suddenly disappeared that are behind the os itself. Problem after problem. Now I have to go and get my laptop wiped completely and windows reinstalled. All caused by trying to update a autonomous graphics driver. Thanks a million Nvidia. I have updated my driver many times before, they always made me nervous but never had any problems. It is highly likely you won’t either. Just make sure you back up everything beforehand just in case.