PC progressively getting worse to the point it doesn't work anymore over 2 days.

[Psych Reaper]

Hello, my pc first began with the screen going black and not turning back on. Yesterday and today, it's done the same thing but with several different colors. A light blue, pink, green, white, and black. All solid color screens, and I cannot fix it unless i restart the computer. It was doing this when I'd bring up videos, or games. Now it does it before I even log in. Ive been able to get into safe mode with and without networking a few times, and it seems fine then. Ive updated my drivers, went back to old graphic drivers, updated windows, and now I cant do anything. It wont even boot up now before the screen goes black. I've gone through the bios and boot menus, but since ive updated it doesnt have any recovery points. Is there anyway to restore my pc without losing my files? I've got a lot of important information on it, and would like to keep it if at all possible. Also, could it be my gpu failing? Or could it be just some kind of failed interaction with my drivers? I did restart it while I was trying to recovery it before I updated it, and it had a black screen so I couldnt tell if it was finished or not, but once it restarted, it said it was a success, but still its been acting quite strange, with things like my profile picture not showing up anymore on the log in screen for windows. I'm at a loss now, and cant seem to catch a break with this thing these past few days. I built it in late 2017, its a ryzen 5 1600 with the gtx 1050 ti, so its not too terribly old. Any and all help would be appreciated, thank you very much.

[Radium_Angel]

9 minutes ago, Psych Reaper said:

Any and all help would be appreciated, thank you very much.

Could be a bad screen, or video card. Swap them out, starting with the screen, and see what happens

[Psych Reaper]

15 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

Could be a bad screen, or video card. Swap them out, starting with the screen, and see what happens

Tried the screen, still happening. Ill try the video card in a bit when i have access to another one. Thank you for the advice.

[Radium_Angel]

56 minutes ago, Psych Reaper said:

Tried the screen, still happening. Ill try the video card in a bit when i have access to another one. Thank you for the advice.

Yeah, let us know how things go, we'll take further steps from there.

[Psych Reaper]

9 hours ago, Radium_Angel said:

Yeah, let us know how things go, we'll take further steps from there.

I just put in a gtx 950, and it worked for a few minutes but the screen went black a few times for a second or so, but it came back. But the screen just went white on me once again. So I guess it isnt my graphics card? Also, sorry about the late reply, judt now was able to get my friends card. 

 

Edit: nevermind, it did the screen thing a few times, then it restarted two or three times, I guess to indtall the drivers for the new gpu, and now its working decently for the past 10 mind even in a game.

 

Another edit lol, it just black screened once again while in a game. I'm completely confused. 

[Radium_Angel]

3 hours ago, Psych Reaper said:

I just put in a gtx 950, and it worked for a few minutes but the screen went black a few times for a second or so, but it came back. But the screen just went white on me once again. So I guess it isnt my graphics card? Also, sorry about the late reply, judt now was able to get my friends card. 

 

Edit: nevermind, it did the screen thing a few times, then it restarted two or three times, I guess to indtall the drivers for the new gpu, and now its working decently for the past 10 mind even in a game.

 

Another edit lol, it just black screened once again while in a game. I'm completely confused. 

Hmmmm...

 

'Tis a tricky one. Assuming WIn10, how well do you know your way around it?

Go to Control Panel, then Administrative Tools, then Event Viewer, then Windows Logs, and finally System.

This will list all events happening "behind the scenes" so to speak. Look for any Red X's, click on them and look at the error message(s)

Post any you think are relevant here.

 

[Psych Reaper]

21 hours ago, Radium_Angel said:

Hmmmm...

 

'Tis a tricky one. Assuming WIn10, how well do you know your way around it?

Go to Control Panel, then Administrative Tools, then Event Viewer, then Windows Logs, and finally System.

This will list all events happening "behind the scenes" so to speak. Look for any Red X's, click on them and look at the error message(s)

Post any you think are relevant here.

 

Okay so theres tons of red ex's but all the ones I clicked on were the same error. It said "the nvidia localsystem container service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 13 times. The following corrective action will be taken in 10000 milliseconds. Run the configured recovery program." 

 

The event id is 7031 and it says the source Is service control manager. 

 

Theres also another that repeated twice that says the nvcontainerlocalsystem service terminated unexpectedly as well with the same event id and source. 

 

One of the nvcontainerlocalsystem errors is 7023, and it says a generic command executable returned a result that indicates failure as well.

 

By the way, thank you for all your help Angel. 

[Radium_Angel]

5 hours ago, Psych Reaper said:

By the way, thank you for all your help Angel. 

Yeah you bet. It's clear the nVidia driver package is crashing, possibly corrupt.

While I am not a fan of the program, have you tried DDU?

https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html

 

It's supposed to wipe out *every* trace of the nVidia driver, allowing you to start fresh.

Before you do that, however, let me ask you this:

 

Have you run the system in Safe Mode? I'm curious if the system crashes or otherwise behaves oddly in SM, where the GFX card is only supposed to be used in a basic non-accelerated way.

Another option, though probably a wild goose chase, have you checked your motherboard for bad capacitors? Mostly that's a problem that doesn't exist anymore, but some boards still use the "classic" caps, that can suffer from failure and cause no end of issues.

[Psych Reaper]

8 hours ago, Radium_Angel said:

Yeah you bet. It's clear the nVidia driver package is crashing, possibly corrupt.

While I am not a fan of the program, have you tried DDU?

https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html

 

It's supposed to wipe out *every* trace of the nVidia driver, allowing you to start fresh.

Before you do that, however, let me ask you this:

 

Have you run the system in Safe Mode? I'm curious if the system crashes or otherwise behaves oddly in SM, where the GFX card is only supposed to be used in a basic non-accelerated way.

Another option, though probably a wild goose chase, have you checked your motherboard for bad capacitors? Mostly that's a problem that doesn't exist anymore, but some boards still use the "classic" caps, that can suffer from failure and cause no end of issues.

I've never used ddu before, and yeah i used it in safe mode with and without networking so I could go on YouTube, and it worked completely fine. Ill give it another go though and double check to make sure it still works okay in safe mode. Ill give the mobo a run over as well, ill let you know if I find anything. Thank you again. 

[Radium_Angel]

1 hour ago, Psych Reaper said:

Thank you again. 

Yeah, keep me updated, post pics of anything you see out of the ordinary (or even think is unusual) on the mobo or GPU, etc.

We'll figure it out sooner or later

[Psych Reaper]

6 hours ago, Radium_Angel said:

Yeah, keep me updated, post pics of anything you see out of the ordinary (or even think is unusual) on the mobo or GPU, etc.

We'll figure it out sooner or later

I checked the mobo, and couldn't see any bursted capacitors, or any of them leaking or anything like that. I'm currently on safe mode, and nothing unusual has occured yet. Think I'll give that software you suggested a try, and see where that takes me. I'll update you on how it goes. 

 

Edit: Alright, I used DDU and it uninstalled everything as far as I know. I then got back on, and downloaded the newest drivers once again, as soon as It finished, it said it failed to install them, then it black screened on me. It turned various colored solid screens after that a few times until I was finally able to get it to boot into safe mode again. I used DDu again, and tried installing drivers once again, it did the same thing. I'm pretty much stumped. 

 

Edit: I was in safe mode with networking, with multiple tabs opened, and it crashed on me. The screen turned orange, and then I had to restart it several times to get it back into safe mode again.

[Radium_Angel]

7 hours ago, Psych Reaper said:

and it crashed on me.

Two more things we can try, both are insane long shots, before we start fresh...

 

(1) Test your RAM. It's *highly* unlikely bad RAM would cause this (bad RAM can cause all manner of issues, but not like this, at least as far as I've ever seen) but we'll need to rule it out. Use MemTest86+. It will take some time to run (you'll need a bootable USB or CD/DVD) but it will clear your RAM as a cause.

 

(2) Borrow a new power supply. Failing power supplies can cause all manner of issues, if the video card isn't getting enough power typically the entire system will spontaneously reboot under load, but stranger things have happened.

 

Beyond hardware, you've got a corruption in Windows the likes of which I've never seen. But we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.

In the meantime, under Safe Mode without networking (lowest load possible of a suspect system) I'd go get a USB stick and start backing up your most important data to it, just in case we have to start fresh.