NVIDIA drivers causing issues, please help!

[Footyslayer]

Hi everyone, I am pretty desperate for some help here!

Yesterday I installed the latest NVIDIA drivers, all installed OK. Last night I shut down my PC, upon booting today I am getting issues...

PC boots as normal, I get to desktop and things start loading in the bottom right (Virus software, spyware software, volumr icon, etc) then after a few seconds I get a black screen with no mouse pointer, I can't see anything or hear anything. Oddly if I press my reboot button on my tower there is a 2-3 second delay until it kicks in where it is normally instant.

I have tried the following...

Uninstalled driver and re-installing
Doing a clean uninstall with DDU
Downloading and re-install the last driver that worked (but no problem persists with current and older driver)

If I boot into safe mode this does not happen, I am normally pretty good at sorting this sort of thing out but any NVIDIA driver installation causes this.

As it stands I am in safe mode, I am about to uninstall the driver via DDU again, I will be able to boot into windows normally but then do not have any drivers installed, the PC works as normal though.

Has to be a driver issue but I can't solve it

Any help please?

 

[Footyslayer]

Hi

latest driver 352.86 its not great from reports on guru3d forums roll back to a older driver

I tried the previous driver which worked fine, this now won't work either

Could it have messed up some windows files ?

Possibly, really do not want to re-install windows here!

 

[Footyslayer]

Try windows repair that might fix it only other option is a fresh install

Tried windows repair, didn't do much.

I can't face a fresh install at the minute, surely there must be a better solution or something relatively simple

 

[Footyslayer]

My plan is to re-install the GTA driver, it worked fine. However even when installing that I get the issue, almost as if the new driver has caused issues for any drivers.

Any advice on getting the old driver to work I would be very happy

 

[Footyslayer]

This is the first time I have ever had issues with a Nvidia driver.

In the end I did a system restore to about a week ago, all is fine now