GPU Upgrade and Windows Refuses to boot

another random person · November 14, 2022

I've only just installed a new GPU, and windows 11 now refuses to boot up.

It starts and posts normally at the native resolution of my display and even displays the windows start up loading circle but it just freezes for half a second and reboots. Could this be a windows issue, secure boot issue, or a GPU issue?

From here it enters a boot loop doing basically what I said above over and over again.

I've tested with multiple displays and checked there were no issues with any of the hardware in the UEFI BIOS.

Do I just need to reinstall Windows?

For reference I have installed a RTX 3070 into an AMD Ryzen 7 3700x System running Windows 11 22H2

Brooksie359 · November 14, 2022

Maybe starting in safe mode and then use ddu to uninstall your display drivers and then reinstall the latest drivers and reboot to see if that fixes it.

another random person · November 15, 2022

19 hours ago, Brooksie359 said:

Maybe starting in safe mode and then use ddu to uninstall your display drivers and then reinstall the latest drivers and reboot to see if that fixes it.

I ended up restoring to Windows 22H1 and it worked. Cheers!