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Only way out of this so far is switching to the UMA option from the BIOS as no other way works with the Ndivia card.
I've tried removing the driver complete with Guru3D DDU, then installing the latest one and still no effect. Might have to try using an older version, perhaps that would work.
For a moment had an odd error message on screen saying the following:
nvapi.dll is either not designed to run on Windows or it contains an error."
Obviously this is a DLL from Nvidia's software, however I dont see how this DDL would not be compatible with the OS since the driver I am trying to install was initially downloaded through Nvidia's GeForce Experience and then downloaded it manually.
Searched Google, there was no apparent fix for this error.
Did try SFC through CMD as well and the OS didnt find anything.
Do you have any suggestions?
Before Lockscreen (if you can even get there) hold Shift and click on the Power button then, while still holding Shift click on Restart.I am still playing around with it, If I come up with anything I will let you know.
Booting into safemode is even a pain in the butt...
Done all of this. I had tried 4 different version of Win 10, tried installing without internet access. Decided that just Windows 10 is downloading faulty drivers and installed Windows 7 Pro, then installed all drivers that came originally with the laptop, still nothing.Just for the heck of it, but what build of windows 10 are you using ?
Just in case rebuild your usb or burn a iso to dvd, using the mediacreationtool so you get the latest version of windows.
Anyway after install windows 10 will auto start downloading updates including graphics drivers.
Just install windows 10 with internet disabled, after that just set driver updates from windows update to disabled, after that enable internet,
And install latest driver see if that solves it, as windows might be downloading the graphics driver while you do it as well. you never know, windows is weird like that.
If i recall some older versions of 10 had issues with nvidia reason i recommend the latest if i recall "creators" update version.
Check your harddisk. Do a diagnostics test. Probably the hard drive is messed up.