Upgrade to newest gpu drivers on my drivers results in a failure to boot

Windows 10

Here are some specs and Windows version:

Processor (CPU) Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-9300HF @ 2.40 GHz
Installed RAM 16.0 GB
Storage 477 GB SSD (WDC PC SN520)
Graphics Card (GPU) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (3 GB)
System Type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
Windows Edition Windows 10 Home
Windows Version 22H2
OS Build 19045.6456

And the current driver I am trying to update:

Driver Date 11/20/2020
Driver Version 27.21.14.5749

Basically the laptop wont boot after I shut it down, only showing a black screen, maybe sometimes showing me those classic gpu glitches and flickering, once it worked after I put in an external monitor.

Only thing that worked was the recovery/installation USB, at first I did a clean install but now I made some sort of snapshot of the system and could recover that. I tried to update the drivers only twice and both times I didnt immediately do a classic shut off thing. First time I did an update (it was the last update two-ish weeks ago) and the second time the next boot was to a Linux Mint on a Live USB so no idea how it wuold have behaved if I just shut it off normally and I dont feel like trying it to break it again.

Should I try to do a clean install of the drivers? Or just give up on Davinci Resolve working and download Openshot lol?

Posted Oct 30, 2025, 3:53 PM UTC

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