Crashing while installing graphics drivers

[CallMeMysterious]

The title kind of says it all.

I recently upgraded to a Ryzen 5 system and now whenever I try to install my GPU drivers (GTX 1060 6gb) it starts working, then blackscreens.That part is normal, installing drivers has always done that for me. But the problem is that a few seconds after it bluescreens, the computer power cycles. Then when Windows boots (or tries to) it crashes with error code Video Scheduler Internal Error.

I know it has to do with only the GPU because I can install other drivers just fine. It always crashes on the GPU driver. 

So far I've tried multiple versions of the driver as well as running DDU first. Unfortunately whenever the computer crashes due to that problem, it doesn't make a minidump file so I can't upload it to a website to analyze it. Other than that one problem the system is otherwise completely usable. I've also tried using device manager to automatically look for drivers, and when it does grab the GPU driver it does the same thing.

Any help is greatly appreciated. If you need any more info just ask. 

[CallMeMysterious]

I forgot to add, 

Running Windows 10 64 bit, Version 1803 Build 17134.112

[0x1e]

When this happen to me it was a dead GPU.
When the GPU drivers are not installed then the GPU is not a GPU. It is instead a pass-through. So before the drivers are installed everything looks fine, but that's because the GPU isn't actually doing anything.

[CallMeMysterious]

6 minutes ago, 0x1e said:

When this happen to me it was a dead GPU.
When the GPU drivers are not installed then the GPU is not a GPU. It is instead a pass-through. So before the drivers are installed everything looks fine, but that's because the GPU isn't actually doing anything.

But that's the only GPU in the system, I didn't get an APU. Plus if I go into driver details or dxdiag with the Microsoft basic display adapter installed, it shows it's a 1060.

I'll try re seating the GPU and it's power cable after I get some sleep.

[CallMeMysterious]

After doing some digging and looking on other forums, it sounds like of all things it's a power supply problem.

I have an EVGA 600B and it sounds like it has a rep of having problems after a couple years. It has been a few years so I shouldn't say I'm surprised. 

From what I found, the problem is that when installing a video driver, the card temporarily goes into a P0 power state which is the highest power draw mode, and also explains why the fans ramp up around then too.

The problem comes with ripple currents or something similar. Basically, the power supply isn't providing "clean" power and is having slight fluctuations. In my case, it was fluctuating a bit too much and power dropped elsewhere and caused the system to power cycle, force stopping the driver install and corrupting it. 

I'm looking into buying a new power supply.