Failed gpu overclock stuck in boot-loop

[saab_gobbler]

So I was trying to dial in an overclock on my gpu, but I pushed it too high & the screen just started spazing out. Usually the graphics driver just crashes, but that didn't happen this time. Couldn't see anything so I couldn't hit reset, so I just restarted the computer. I don't believe Afterburner is set to run at startup, however the overclock must still be applied because the second windows boots it starts doing the same thing. It won't boot into safe mode either. Fortunately I'm dual booting with ubuntu; the picture is fine there & I can at least access the windows filesystem to edit configs & stuff. Any ideas?

[Altecice]

Will it display anything prior to loading Windows?

[saab_gobbler]

Will it display anything prior to loading Windows?

Yep, everything displays fine up until it tries to load the desktop. It's working fine in Ubuntu as well.

[skyress3000]

download overclocking program for ubuntu and dial it back to normal?

[Altecice]

Yep, everything displays fine up until it tries to load the desktop. It's working fine in Ubuntu as well.

 

Right you can force it into the menu that will allow you to boot into Safe Mode by forcing your computer to fail to boot 3 times. From that you should be able to stop MSI Afterburner from launching on startup.

[saab_gobbler]

download overclocking program for ubuntu and dial it back to normal?

I don't think there is one unfortunately. Also I don't think the overclock is being applied in ubuntu (otherwise it would probably be freaking out too).

 

I tried renaming the afterburner config files from ubuntu, no change.

[saab_gobbler]

Right you can force it into the menu that will allow you to boot into Safe Mode by forcing your computer to fail to boot 3 times. From that you should be able to stop MSI Afterburner from launching on startup.

It won't boot into safe mode, it stops & then artifacts appear at the top of the screen

[Altecice]

It won't boot into safe mode, it stops & then artifacts appear at the top of the screen

 

Pull your GPU out of your system, boot into Windows with your motherboards onboard GPU. Uninstall the MSI Afterburner and then place your GPU back in and see how you get on.

 

HMM just noticed you dont have an onboard GPU, do you have another card you can boot with?

[saab_gobbler]

Pull your GPU out of your system, boot into Windows with your motherboards onboard GPU. Uninstall the MSI Afterburner and then place your GPU back in and see how you get on.

 

HMM just noticed you dont have an onboard GPU, do you have another card you can boot with?

 

I do, but I managed to get safe mode to boot, there's no artifacting or anything weird going on. I uninstalled afterburner, but when I boot it regularly it's doing the same thing =/

[Altecice]

I do, but I managed to get safe mode to boot, there's no artifacting or anything weird going on. I uninstalled afterburner, but when I boot it regularly it's doing the same thing =/

 

Use DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller) to remove your GPU drivers in safe-mode. Then do a reinstall of the drivers.

[saab_gobbler]

Use DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller) to remove your GPU drivers in safe-mode. Then do a reinstall of the drivers.

That did the trick! Thanks so much!  :lol:

 

wow, I've never had display drivers get corrupted like that, crazy

[Altecice]

That did the trick! Thanks so much!  :lol:

 

wow, I've never had display drivers get corrupted like that, crazy

 

Indeed, its not often that it happens but it can happen