This serious issue was a simple fix... Here's how!

[@Wagnard28]

As the DDU developer, I thank you for your trust with DDU and for demonstrating quite well why and how to use it. Oh and the exit worked, you had DDU opened 2 times for some reason :) (can be seen on the taskbar.)

[@dexmiermaxime8583]

Thank you and all the team for these kind of tool. It's a big help for regular people who are kinda overwhelmed if they had to manually clean all of these files.

[@fckyt8222]

DDU saves time :D. No Windows new install need, just do DDU and most time, its fine :).

[@FuzzyMannerz]

A true legend!

[@adrianvorkaaa3534]

mah man!!

[@KatalistProductionsKozzySasha]

Thanks for all the great work on DDU!

[@adam_flanigan]

Jays advert for iFixIt is by far the funniest and most convincing LOL.

[@calebnunn6029]

Absolutley!!! They get me everytime lol.

[@LegionaireSiggi]

I was coming to say the same thing!

[@bene452]

exactly what i think too

[@aggelosgedeon1405]

I just watch it to the end every time

[@johnchrystfrancissandoval6247]

Yow, that's our catchie jay working hehe. He's good!!

[@forsakensrb]

I can't even tell you how many times I've come back to this video in the past 2 years. Latest issue is a driver update, and despite using clean installation, weird red artifacting started to appear when in game. This is such a goated video. Jay is a goat! Edit: So are the DDU guys, obviously.

[@JonathanHarvell]

Re: MSI Afterburner applying unstable clocks. There's a button you can hold down during startup that will bypass the auto-apply. Just can't remember which button it is offhand!

[@gunguywow]

It's CTRL!! Source: the tooltip when I highlight over the startup icon on my skin of afterburner

[@twocows360]

useful!

[@TechBlock]

This seems to have genuinely fixed my BSOD issues with this VIDEO TDR FAILURE blue screen that's been driving me insane over the last year... CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH JAY

[@anthonyturner3814]

@@samexoldx @TechBlock did this work long term?

[@anthonyturner3814]

@@samexoldx it's likely a hardware issue of some sort, sent mine for repair and they found an issue between motherboard and GPU, replacing motherboard.

[@jlr8610]

@@samexoldx I am having this issue now, I just did what Jay did and I am still getting crashes. I dont know what to do I'm stressed out about this. Same as you mine crashes when on google but when I am gaming its fine. Please leave an update if you have one, I cannot just go buy new hardware you know lol.

[@vortexnutwhale]

@@jlr8610 I get crashes when I'm gaming but not when im google. Im confused. I might just get another motherboard

[@jlr8610]

@@vortexnutwhale hey man, in the end I found out the issue was the outlet. Its in our house on the second floor and the lights flickered sometimes when the pc was on. I moved my pc and never had the same issue again. Make sure your outlet can carry the load in watts, because sudden power drops will cause this video failure. I mean its better to try than buying a new mobo ;)

[@ADITYA1NEGI]

You saved me from buying another computer, thank you sooo much for this video. I was facing random crash issues from last 6 months and have tried everything from windows clean install to endless driver shuffling and this has fixed my issue. I really appreciate your work to share this key piece of information which is hidden from common people.

[@rabslegacy9432]

What specifically worked for you?

[@josephbertrand6541]

@@rabslegacy9432what he did in the vid..?

[@railx2005]

@@josephbertrand6541leave bro be... hes just a little slow

[@krunchy3761]

Fastboot is a BIOS setting that gets through the BIOS faster, Fast Start is the Windows setting that starts Windows from the hybrid hibernate thing. Also I don't know who had the brilliant idea to disable the F8 to boot to safe mode in Windows 10.

[@acidcharon]

Microsofts statement was... They did it cause new PC's boot very fast and you dont ever get the chance to press F8 and interupt the boot anyway.

[@davidcarter1912]

with the uefi bios you can choose an option in there on some if not all to kick windows boot to recovery options and removing the F8 function is probably to improve security on bootup

[@lexiath]

getting into safe mode is not even hard, WinKey+R type msconfig go to the boot tab on the bottom turn on safe boot and you are done, and when you are done working on safe boot repeat the steps to turn it of or till always boot on safe mode.

[@gremfive4246]

My machine doesnt have that Fast Startup option or the Hibernate option in that menu... no wonder I never had that problem.

[@Stinker4583]

I work in IT support and I ALWAYS turn off the Windows fast boot, cuz it causes all sorts of problems. People will be like "but I shut down my PC and restarted it" or "I always shut it down" and then I go into task manager and the system uptime is like 3 months. There is literally NO advantage WHATSOEVER in fast boot. Like 5 sec faster boot time on an SSD, but a shitload of problems that would be solved with a proper reeboot. It's like they specifically designed this feature to cause problems and nothing else. It's existence makes no sense.

[@whiskeymike7364]

"Some people are not fluent in bluescreen." Truth. And clearly said. TY. PLUS, the "don't use express install" is new to me and informative because the do a clean install is brilliant. TY again.

[@aahzmandiaz2767]

I do not use quick install, because I need to know what this application wants to do. And where he install the drivers to. Sometimes I do not agree with install routines. :D

[@jeffrichmond6399]

Although been doing pc's for 30+ years a video like this always helps and old pc guy , either stuff you forget over the years or just a newer and better way to do or fix old problems . ~ Thx for the info Jay !

[@casbot71]

I find the most reliable way to fix these sort of issues is to pull a all nighter, then sometime around 4am _when I'm half dead_ I'll somehow solve the issue and then have no memory of how I actually did it when I finally wake up.

[@rishavraj9534]

wow hehe gonna try this for sure bude 😂

[@amyfranks8781]

I've done this so many times that this hurts to read

[@Mjdecker1234]

Lmao, I just did this. Was dumb and went on the DEV build for windows 11. Had a boot up error not allowing me to get on the desktop. So I was up for a 1.5 days and I finally got it to work. Had to reset the BIOS on the motherboard. As a "1 year built PC", taking something off the Motherboard made me very nervous lol

[@BigChieff93]

Mood

[@flfloful]

I'm just going to add a piece of information here: restart is more effective than shutdown and manually restart. That is because Microsoft knows that people that push restart is due to an issue with their computer. The shutdown usually keeps a part of the kernel loaded ( like you said about fastboot) meanwhile 'restart' dumps it and does a real cold boot

[@Raven777777777777777]

@@rayquazahere8529 Just like Jay said, Windows does whatever it wants.

[@Lizlodude]

AFAIK restart is the most reliable way to actually shutdown Windows, but it doesn't necessarily power cycle the hardware itself, which is annoying. Either way it can leave something not quite shut down, so usually if Windows is being dumb I'll just do a few cycles of shutdown, power, start, restart and hope that works.

[@ShEmDK]

Holding down Shift while hitting shutdown makes it shutdown completely (AFAIK) Edit: Left-Shift

[@akiradalpatadu2418]

my guy probably have tics XD

[@darkangels1813]

unless you black screen so bad nothing is useable while gaming :/

[@Ivo.33]

Honestly was banging my head the whole time trying everything I can think of and every video and yet this one helped me in ways I can't explain thank you from now on I've adopted the mindset of learning everything I need to know when it comes to PCs, so keep putting in the work cause I'll be learning.

[@SaraMorgan-ym6ue]

yeah the point this video goes to show you is what bottlenecks can do to make a slow slow computer to run slower then it can run at and how an ssd with more ram can speed it up a bit

[@goclo]

Thank you guys soooo much for doing random bug fix videos like this. Started getting these random blue screens and crashes after a motherboard swap and clean windows install and no matter how many times I did a clean (or what I thought was) drivers install, I was still having issues. This popped up on my recommended feed on YT and it just happened to relate to the problems I've been having. I appreciate the time you pit into sharing this info and the detailed explanation!

[@descriptiion41927]

Did it stop your blue screen errors?

[@goclo]

@@descriptiion41927 yes it did fix it!

[@CoachEzell]

I installed a new gpu and started getting blue screens never have before, so I put my old gpu back in and now I’m getting blue screens on it, any help?

[@descriptiion41927]

@@CoachEzell like the video states, try Downloading DDU and uninstalling all GPU drivers and redownloading new GPU drivers, come back to this comment if it worked for you

[@CoachEzell]

it did not work@@descriptiion41927

[@thijsvdzwan]

Note: you can also unplug your ethernet cable (if you use one) to prevent windows from installing an automatic outdated driver when you fire up windows in stead of disabling it in the advanced settings menu. This could come in handy if you regularly plug in new devices in your pc that requires a driver to run. You'd have to install that on your own for every device (usb's etc).

[@DarkAudit]

That suggestion is on the DDU download page, BTW. 😎

[@ianmc6063]

lol just was inquiring about that...didnt c ur comment.

[@wreardon1979]

Rarely comment on videos, BUT this worked after umpteen videos and googling, this actually worked!! Was so close to buying a new PC with money I couldn't afford to lose. Thank you, thank you, thank you!! Genuinely THANKYOU!!!

[@SaraMorgan-ym6ue]

he goes to show you how there can be bottlenecks in an old computer that are making an existing computer run slower then it should

[@stickfigured1223]

honestly jay, watching your vids make me happy, when i'm having a shitty day your tech vids are what make the happy, the chill environment, the silliness, and the all out great vibes you bring to every video is what makes me keep coming back to watch new and even old vids. keep up the great content jay and same goes for your whole team!

[@Nostalgia_Realm]

Kinda unrelated, but I've had to disable fast startup from the start on my X370 AMD build because it would never actually shut down and resume gracefully. Windows always reported unexpected shutdowns. On Windows 11 it still has this issue. Never really got to the bottom of the issue. I wonder if other people have the same experience.

[@pdamasco]

My board had bios that broke sleep. It was a Gigabyte x370 Gaming K7. They however got that fixed a few months after I bought it and most of my instability was due to ram timings/settings or having something voltage related set to AUTO instead of Normal. I got used to adjusting the board and after Gigabyte patched those bugs I had it running 3200mhz ram all the time with no issues for over 3 years.

[@vincdragon]

yup had to disable fast boot on my new build as well My computer refused to turn off it just did a semi-quick restart.

[@tirtel1]

That broke my windows installation on old laptop once, cuz it would not fully shutdown and somehow start corrupting files if it remained turned on

[@SleeplessSirens]

bro i literally had to send my computer back because fast startup basically made it impossible to get anything to appear on screen. Got it back and disabled the fast startup right away and been running since

[@RJARRRPCGP]

@Tech & Nostalgia Kingdom Same here, with my MSI B450 Tomahawk and Ryzen 3 3200G (Picasso, which is based on Pinnacle Ridge, IIRC) at the time, in January, 2020, I disabled "fast boot" and the issue stopped occurring. I was wondering why I got nicked with a "Critical" category-level error for an unexpected reboot, and then found the cause!

[@Rafiishamim2007]

Thank you so much for helping me solve the problem I've been experiencing all this time when I updated the driver, it immediately showed a blue screen. After I tried this method, it really worked 100%. I don't really understand English, that's my mistake, but I can read what you're saying.

[@oscarphillips9043]

It's great that Jay has videos for almost every problem related to computers.

[@atrelex9442]

Now if only they were easier to find and navigate through

[@RESMAUK]

Now if only they were 1/3 of the time and more like a tech quickie 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@ShadowSlayer1441]

The common ones, there are literally millions of possible problems. He’s probably has videos on 0.00001% of problems. If this was just a hyperbole, I apologize.

[@davesobani9565]

Gonne look through his video lust iff he has anything on the svchost virus/ remote acces key...

[@redthorne2836]

Is this actually good...or Jay just very unfortunate?

[@xemphios]

"Most people aren't fluent in blue screen" is a pretty funny quote.

[@wickedwonka999]

It's true though. I'm someone who freaked out over that same blue screen. Thought my 3080 was toast.

[@jonnywilson9117]

@@wickedwonka999 I was getting clock watchdog timeout about 2 days into using my new pc. I9 11900k with a 3080 Ti. ALso had this one pop up a few times "whea uncorrectable error". These would happen while trying to load a program and then the watchdog one would happen every restart for about 4 or 5 times. Ran a CPU stress test, plus GPU stress test, which I had no issues with the gpu anyway. But after that, it's been shmooth like butta. Who woulda thunk it

[@husckoo]

I'm definitely not LMAO

[@LoopKoop6778]

I read this as he was saying it....

[@austin9809]

​@jonnywilson9117 so the watchdog timeout error would have to do with the gpu drivers? I'm pretty much only watchdog timeout errors

[@itsstyy2958]

Finally after a full year of this being the biggest pain this was the only video that solved my problem thank you!!!

[@bsbradley]

Jay I swear to god I was so close to buying a new prebuilt out of frustration for this very issue, and before I wasted $1500 you drop this vid. You just saved me a not insignificant amount of cash.

[@Jwellsuhhuh]

Not insignificant

[@Kage0No0Tenshi]

I have a better idea, clean install windows 10 (1909) will only take 20 minutes and drivers take lets say 20 minutes and download games (200gb) will take 1 hour so just less than 2 hour I will have a clean new PC :)

[@lewie110]

@@Kage0No0Tenshi just one of my games is over 200GB and thats at least 18 hours to download with my internet

[@Raven777777777777777]

@@lewie110 Good for you, with my internet it would take about 2 days atleast.

[@lewie110]

@@Raven777777777777777 which is exactly my point it's not as easy as wiping your whole pc and re-downloading everything for people like us especially when someone like me has at least 3.8TB worth of games that I actually play

[@jankrubner4546]

You have literally saved me from buying a new laptop. This issue started about a week ago on my current Asus laptop and I just couldn't figure it out, thought that it was gone. Thank you a lot.

[@churro6160]

is it the issue with the AMD graphics driver?

[@jankrubner4546]

@@churro6160 Seemed to be, yes

[@churro6160]

I wonder if we have the same issue. With my Asus (Ryzen 7 iGPU + Nvidia 3050 GPU) . The AMD control panal won't open, original error message said something like there is an issue with its driver, incompatible? I tried to do a clean install through AMD's website and downloading it from there but I now get a similar message but now talks about the Adrenaline version. While gaming, the cpu temps climb into the 90s and fluctuating into the 70s and 80s. I know for a fact it's supposed to be in the high 60s. I feel like they may be related

[@jankrubner4546]

@@churro6160 With my issue I wasn't able to get past this blue screen into windows, so I don't think it's the same problem. I would download gpu drivers from Nvidia itself rather than AMD. Maybe also check the speed of your fan if it's getting enough airflow. Best of luck

[@churro6160]

yeah different, I see. I'm glad you got yours fixed and thank you for the tips!

[@brad8710]

Thank you sir! You saved me a million headaches. I was beginning to think my computer was fried and you saved it. Now I am enjoying the Master Chief Collection and loving it!

[@ChEd1980]

Disabling fast startup is one of the first things I do when I build a new machine! You can tell you have that enabled if you look at the system uptime as it'll be showing a long time even if your system has only been on for a few minutes, it'll reset that figure if you do a restart but normal power up and then shutdown when you are done using your system it keeps counting up.

[@PutsOnSneakers]

Oh shit I wish I knew before decomissioning my previous MB.... it would have had a sick uptime number like 7 years of fastboot lol

[@rageplays2377]

After following this video, I recommend watching "We have been installing nividia drivers wrong" very informative and adds to what jay showed in this video.

[@teeksGG]

This just saved my PC, thank you so much for this tutorial. I've tried literally everything and spent days for this simple fix to be the solution. Games were crashing nonstop before I tried this.

[@wowdogeful]

I swear Jay just keeps a collection of bricked GPUs and motherboards so he always has material for a video if he needs it.

[@friendlygiant1]

Very true. U must respect this man for what he does for us 😎

[@The_Sleepiest_Socialist]

You have the same name as me! (If your username is anything to go by)

[@jakkdlaw]

@@The_Sleepiest_Socialist but your name is Sir Poops-a-lot XD

[@JCrook1028]

Well it would make no sense for him tog et rid of them so.......yea he keeps em.

[@TinchoX]

COULD be posible...

[@ThiemenDoppenberg]

Thank you so much Jay!! This is exactly the problem I had for 2 weeks now. I actually bought a whole new rig just because of it. (nice one with 5600X+3070Ti) After trying for 2 hours(!) I finally got my old system to work again thanks to your video. Can I buy you a cup of coffee (a donation?)

[@TheGoldenLight11]

Can't believe 3 years later this video actually just saved my ass. Long story short dude, you're an absolute beast. THANK YOU TONS. My father used to sit me down as a kid and teach me the basics of computers and informed me that uninstallers don't actually delete everything, and later you run into problems if you don't continually wipe your PC. As I was diagnosing a problem I've had for the past year, I didn't realize that all my old profile data that you mentioned in the video was being saved EVEN THROUGH the multiple wipes I've done. My initial hunch was exactly that the layered downloads were causing problems, but I didn't realize that wiping your computer didn't actually fix all the registry stuff. Once I heard that in your video, I realized THAT must be the issue. My first run through of the directions landed me nowhere. So I double checked and this time made sure to SPECIFICALLY hit that UNINSTALL PHYSX software. After that, reinstalled the latest update one more time (usually just makes my computer absolutely buggy as hell) and to my suprise the computer was working BEAUTIFULLY. THANK YOU SO MUCH

[@brettspicer6463]

I always choose advanced options for updating my GPU for clean install (so I thought) and also use DDU when changing GPU's but I didn't know about all the other info you shared. Thanks a lot Jay for that, just priceless.

[@Konvinced89]

Want to report that this fixed a chronic low 1% issue I've had for about 6 months: went from single digits to nearly triple digits in CoD MW at 1440p Ultra running a 5600x/3070 rig. Thanks Jay.

[@raymondortizrivera4368]

Im going to try it out. I always updated with the express installation option i had no idea it could cause that problem which started when I was playing DOOM: Eternal. The gpu would just go to 1% then 0% and the screen would go black then i played another game and the same thing happened and it was an 11 year old game i knew something was wrong im glad i stumbled across this vid. Might have to for the starlink gear to get here first though our internet has been out for the past 2 days until a few hours ago.

[@j_c332]

@konvinced89 Im running the same 5600x/RTX 3070 I'm still crashing even after I followed this video. I keep getting the Kernelbase.dll as the reason for the crash. Did you have the same or did you fix anything else

[@DTPWRECKONIZE]

@@j_c332did u figure out what the problem was?

[@j_c332]

@@DTPWRECKONIZE After extensive troubleshooting, I submitted a Return Merchandise Authorization (RMA) to MSI. They were unable to resolve the issue, so I received a superior GPU as a replacement, all within the warranty period.

[@DTPWRECKONIZE]

@@j_c332 oooh wow okay glad to hear it had somewhat of a good ending. Awesome

[@the_pringler]

you can also go in to cmd as admin and type in sfc/scannow and windows will find all corrupt filles and fix them great tool built in without using 3rd party software .... and if your system is running slower than normal try this to put it simply it organizes all your files and makes things better

[@irinabest9686]

I just swapped out my evga 1070 for an evga 3070, and I was having some strange artifacting with lights on dark backgrounds. did this and immediately fixed it. thanks Jay!

[@argodaemon]

I have been having some graphics issues for a bit that I couldn't figure out how to solve. Some programs flickering and occasional crashes. Had been considering looking into further, but haven't had the time. Followed what Jay said here and walla, problem fixed. Runs butter smooth. Thanks for sharing! Definitely helped me!

[@Grenaden86]

Voila* 😁 glad you fixed it it can be such a pain but really I think it's fun.

[@CornFlakeZ]

hi, thank you for this precious video! I saw this I think two months ago. And applied everything. And after that my pc worked again, it had no more blackscreen. It was the failure nvlddmkm , after this it never show up again! I am just so grateful for this video and that my graphics card is not broken. Thank you so much!!!

[@robcollins7680]

I would love to see a video about how phil got his computer working to startup with the raspi and siri. Id like to see how to better integrate my gaming computer with the rest of my smarthome. Just a video idea if you guys feel like it, I know you make great videos anyway!

[@jordyboy62]

I second this, I've just spent the last 20 minutes looking it up and there are myriad complicated ways. Some that look simple too so I'm curious what else phil is using the Ras Pi to power in his home automation.

[@RazeR8023]

There is an option in bios called power on by network aka Wake on Lan, then the pc will accept wake requests by network (sometimes need to turn on some stuff in windows), can use an app like unified remote to power on with your phone, the raspi is for mostly connecting with siri. source: didn't have a case but had an extra phone and also lazy.

[@Black3ternity]

I would suspect that Phil is using HomeBridge on the rPI to enable that. And then he can integrate his PC Status into HomeKit and just tell Siri to do whatever needs to be done in HomeKit.

[@mikey510]

a windows PC being told what to do by a Linux PC that's being told what to do by an iOS device. what a time to be alive!

[@MiguelGomez-ik5ix]

Here! here! Please show Phil yelling at his computer and it turning on. Also, show how he did it. I also want to scream at my electronics and have them turn on

[@JulianMarinovfotografia]

It happened to me 2 days ago and I freaked out thinking my 3080 is dying. So I decided to reset the pc. Thanks for the information! Kkep it up!

[@danielredziniak2996]

Bud your channel is trash

[@DIGITALMEAT]

@@danielredziniak2996 - Kek

[@HardHeadMilitary]

This happened me today. I started my game and it froze. I could not close the game or restart. Powered off the pc, when i restarted it went into windows, then the blue screen.. it went through a percent countdown and restarted

[@amateruss]

@@HardHeadMilitary Did you fix it?

[@HardHeadMilitary]

@@amateruss no, i have not had the time to go through the process… i have noticed also, my lian li o11xl is not keeping my card or cpu as cool as id like it….. about 70 on the card and and 60-65 on my cpu, Which is driving me nuts

[@edimak2217]

I had this BSOD as well with my MSI GTX970 bought from a FB seller. Installed latest driver and it froze and rebooted. Did a clean install, same issue. It is not until I saw your video and it got me thinking a clean install and using an old driver about the same time this card was released. Driver version 360 actually got this card working and stable running without rebooting. It did sometimes blackout for a second or two, but it will continue run after that, Thanks for the tip.

[@Evanx373]

I’ll have to try this. I haven’t had crashes but I have had odd issues with my 2080 here lately

[@longjohn526]

I use it every 3 or 4 driver upgrades (and I don't install the latest drivers unless I have a damned good reason, if it ain't broke don't try to fix it) or if I have to for some reason downgrade a driver (Usually a Ubisoft game issue) and of course when I swap out a graphics card. The only downside is you have to go back into the Nvidia Control Panel and reapply any custom setting you have for some games. I really wish Nvidia would add a feature where we could export those settings, do a clean install and then import them back in.

[@CoCo.-_-]

@@longjohn526 you can use nvidia inspector to save settings and apply them after

[@anusmcgee4150]

I was getting this issue because I figured out I was pushing my 3080's VRAM too hard

[@Evanx373]

@@anusmcgee4150 my card is running totally stock clocks, though i think my issue is i haven't clean installed the drivers in well over a year and always hit express install. never knew doing it the other way was better.

[@rc3ns0rd]

Jays two cents ads are the funniest shit I’ve ever seen. Always underrated

[@ifiwantyoutofeel]

Ifixit 😳🤔

[@ZequiHouseRD]

Jay thanks Sooo much for this tip! This video solved my issue for the most part 🙏🏻 but in my case, my computer refuses to go in safe mode somehow, even tried the turn off several times, ended resolving issue with doing ddu on regular non safe mode + moving windows ssd to main mobo socket 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@FerralVideo]

I've had fast startup cause MANY problems with wifi cards. My Ideapad laptop's wifi card will rather reliably brick and require a reboot if Fast Startup is on. This resulted in the rather hilarious ritual of turning the computer on, then immediately rebooting it.

[@jasonstephen7564]

Is it the realtek wifi card which everyone hates? 😂

[@mariebenjamin1476]

I love that jay has videos for almost every problem related to computers, he has really made a good name for himself

[@mariebenjamin1476]

Investing in crypto is the only big chance of making money don’t forget

[@cynthiazampedro_mejia7516]

@@scottraymond9184 I wanted to trade Crypto but got confused by the fluctuations in price

[@patrickrhonda4901]

@VIRGINIA ANDERSON I heard that he strategies are really good

[@PìnnedbyXrrPlab-m8o]

@VIRGINIA ANDERSON Yeah my first investment with Mr Chris Silbert earned me profit of over $25,530 US dollars ever since then he has been delivering

[@helenpeters8042]

@@PìnnedbyXrrPlab-m8o he has really made a good name for himself

[@Dysphoric_Gaming]

I think this MAY be my issue cause ive tried almost every other video i could find. I ran a memory diagnositc and it was good. Did a sfc scan and it was good. Cleared caches, emptied temp files, ran windows maintiance. Nothing trips up as faulty and as far as i can tell ALL my drivers are up to date but i didnt know installing them ontop of one another could corrupt them! So i am going to try this next. Downloaded ddu and got your video up on my phone to help guide me lol. Im pretty computer savvy but im one of those i feel like know alittle but not enough to fix totally on my own and do not wanna fuck it up anymore. Thank you for everything you do here on this channel, i already have learned alot, and to the developer of the software used here. Sincerely from those of us pulling our hair out♡!

[@QuranRecii]

Did it help?

[@arifarrafi3302]

dit it help? for me th eproblem is whwnever i play this game, my pc would got bsod even tho im right at the game spec demand, but now, after ddu ing, the game would just freeze my pc

[@QuranRecii]

@@arifarrafi3302 i also did everything for my pc, i thought my cpu ist running pretty well cause of task manager, ive had crashes for 1 week, ive changed everything in my pc, nothing helped. Than I applied the termal paste to the pc and made sure the wiring was also correct. Than it worked for me, after literally trying everything on youtube, like everythin (maybe 20 hours of trying to fix it, even though it was that simple)

[@arifarrafi3302]

@@QuranRecii wait, so you just forgot to put thermal paste? and whar kind aof wiring? can you tell me?

[@QuranRecii]

@@arifarrafi3302 no, my thermal paste was "empty" and i had to put on new, and by wiring I mean, that u have to check if every cable in ur pc ist correct, like the cabels for the power supply unit. It could maybe also be because of the RAMS, maybe ur Rams are too bad. But for me worked the paste and correct wiring, but I think it was only the paste, idk I did both at the same time.

[@toren1712]

Mental image of Phil yelling at his PC from across the room makes me laugh way harder than it should.

[@PutsOnSneakers]

I wonder what he calls his PC to initiate the voice assist. probably something like "ZELDA "... or "BRITNEY" lol

[@tekhCHEK]

I've watched this video as well as your other DDU videos multiple times as even being a system builder Im more of a hardware guy and drivers issues always drive me crazy. Your walkthrough was extremely helpful and makes it less intimidating. Thanks

[@alexemorio4920]

Hell yeah.... After two days of searching my bsod error, driver power state failure... And trying 20 tutorials... I found finally a way to make my PC turn off!!!!!!!!! Thank you!!!!

[@TheXev]

2:35 in the newer version of Windows 10, Microsoft readded the ability to use F8 on boot to trigger the boot menu. I don't remember which newer build added this but it is there now if you are not using Fast Boot. Also, if you can get to the login screen (if you have one), you can shift+restart to trigger the boot menu as well.

[@justnileshsharma17]

Man JayZ....I've been troubled with this issue since the last 9-10 months....numerous uninstalls, fresh OS install...I thought windows 11 is the culprit here...thanks man...thanks to you...I'm hopeful I'll be running a stable system ever since windows 11 was forced down our necks

[@laineywright2696]

You said 9 out of 10 times this fixes the problem and yet (kudos to your honesty) it still flubbed up on camera in this video. I'm Dyslexic, 90% of every Windows pop up sounds like; "enter the front door, make three rights and then one left to exit the back patio."????? Answer, it was all by design. B Gates wanted to over-complicate computers so that, buying a newer one was preferred over the confusion. Great video, but I'm not going there. I've been around since Windows 98 and know that I could never handle this advice even with 8 x 10 color glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining how to do this, but I love you Jay.

[@n.o.b.s.8458]

I tried this fix, and it seemed to work at first, but then it came back full force. This is no fault of Jay, but I want to spread some awareness about my experience. I have 3 hard drives in my PC. Boot drive, games, and video storage. It turns out that at some point I installed my drivers to my game drive, not my boot drive. So while this did temporarily fix the issue by running new drivers, I needed to go back and delete the old drivers to fully fix the issue. This whole thing was a hair-pulling mess, but the fix only ended up taking 30 seconds! I just deleted the old drivers, then emptied my recycling bin just to be safe. *UPVOTE IF THIS HELPS!!*

[@eduardorivas363]

Thank You Jay and Wagnard for this video and program. I have been looking at fireworks on my screen for a couple weeks (Really hard to play World of Warships). I decided to give this a go and my screen looks amazing. I did not realize that the fireworks were only a small portion of the problem. My resolution said what I wanted but I was getting much less. Now the resolution looks great. I can now die in battle and see it coming.

[@TroubleChute]

TFW you have the nvlddmkm TDR error (sometimes bluescreen, other times just crashed apps and black screens for a minute), DDU: Nothing. Reinstalled Windows: Nothing. REPLACED MOTHERBOARD, CPU AND RAM: same issue. I truly think my 3080 Ti is borked and I couldn't be sadder.

[@justforepic]

Dude I can't thank you enough for this video. I was up for hours trying to decipher blue screen error messages after I upgraded my graphics card. This video came to my rescue. Thank you so much❤

[@theunprofessional5359]

Phil is on FIRE with the "editor's notes"!😂

[@InaKilometrosX1TUBO]

After a long long time... finally. Someone who has the solution. Thank you very much. You really don't know how much I appreciate it.

[@sean6506]

I thought it was just Farcry 6 giving me this issue. But I've swapped GPU's 3 times this year and always do the game ready updates as you mentioned. I will give this a shot.

[@arhamnoman]

This video saved me hours of trying to figure out what was wrong with my GPU, thanks for the awesome content man

[@defiantjv2920]

Thank you Jay, ive abandoned you once when i was a little chick trying to build his own pc and today youve helped me tremendously! This is my first time having a blue screen in between my game and im thankful i came across your video although it was 30 minutes long! It was worth it!

[@jtqthetieman]

This is literally one of the dumbest problems to still have in 2012, let alone 2021. I could understand it when you get into using modded bios to allow unofficial hardware capabilities or compatibility. I put a GTX 980m into a 2012 Clevo laptop because I got the parts for cheap and I had to use modded card bios, modded motherboard bios, and modded drivers. That is a perfect example of when it would make sense to have to do this. But, just installing a replacement graphics or sound card? No. That's a sign that Microsoft and the hardware manufacturers have spent three feckin decades not getting their crap together. If it's that hard to fix, redo it in a way that can be fixed.

[@casbot71]

1:04 When there's a failure of the failure _to fail_ when demonstrating what the failure is.

[@adalhs]

I tried this yesterday after getting the error intermittently throughout the day and while it’s still too early to call it seems to have fixed the issue. Thank you!!

[@Animegirl377]

This is the kinda video I wish I'd seen when I got my new mobo and gpu, I took like 8 hours doing software troubleshooting and reinstalling stuff cuz I got mad part way through and just deleted windows. Thanks for these videos Jay

[@Lonzology]

As long as you do a clean uninstall of your gpu driver or chipset/mobo driver before hand or before u run things after boot, you should be fine.

[@GetIrked]

This exact issue has been driving me nuts for years! Thanks so much for making this awesome video, Jay! 😀

[@stevenolsen6360]

5 years ago, I had a 2nd hand graphic card put in my desktop, and asked the tech to look at over clocking- pc has BSOD every day since, til today 21-3-24, I removed the graphic card, now waiting for any BSOD, ..................... 4 days later NO BSOD yet ..... now 8 days later and no BSOD, so fixed by removing graphics secondary card

[@kyoudaiken]

Just disable WiFi or remove the Ethernet cable, after the driver is installed Windows will not attempt to download it.

[@Johnny31323]

My pc is getting fixed by reinstalling the whole windows 10 with a clean install, i would get constant freezes, where no input works, the screen freezes, i would get blue screens with messages that dont indicate anything because they were all so random, Memory violation, something failure, all kinds of codes but none of them were right, what was the problem and i know it, is that windows 10 got corrupted, just like this driver issue here. Ive had windows 10 in the past and i had to reinstall it because it would boot into a black screen every time, and same thing happened in safe mode, after reinstalling and instead of getting a legit one like i had before, i got a cracked version, anyway, probably some registry files were left over, even tho windows 10 was being reinstalled. It caused so many problems, the fact that the blue screen can be so misinformative is really bad. Memory violation in this case was really stupid, i would think there was something wrong with the ram but it had nothing to with it, The blue screen in this case, had nothing to do with the code it was showing, it had to do "With windows itself" Im waiting for a servicer that i brought m pc to , to clean install windows 10 legit, I told him that i am 100% sure that the OS is the problem here, but he said he wanted to check the ram thinking its the ram making all the freezes, computer insta-restarts, crashes and blue screens with random error code messages. If anyone sees this and you have the same problem as i do, before anything, do a clean install of windows, at the time where i was booting into the black screen with windows 10, my dad reinstalled and installed a cracked version, he probably didnt do a clean install and some corrupted registry files were left over, And they fucked everything up, do not let this happen to you, DDU is really important, and before switching your gpu to a new one, You must use DDU in safe mode just likw in this case, to uninstall the old driver for the old gpu, before you install the new one. And as you can see as i was telling you from the start, you know now that ut isnt only a gpu problem, its with the registry files not being deleted and it can happen to anything that has its most important files being stored in the registry. *DDU is very important and it is really important to use it, if not, then if you have the option on any kind of installer for your hardware, to do a clean install, Always ALWAYS Accept it!* Edit: My pc got fixed instantly after the windows clean reinstall and now works like a charm :)

[@minecraftmountaineers]

Thank you sooo much. I spent absolutely ages trying to fix my pc since it was constantly turning off, crashing and having other display problems. I was just about to give up when I come across this video. This is the only video on the entirety of KZbin that has been able to help!

[@SaraMorgan-ym6ue]

you thought your computer wouldn't benefit from hardware upgrades you thought wrong!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@TheIronside100]

For those who still have the same issue after trying what this vid showed, read this : I tried it all, DDU in safe mode and YT Indian guys and tryed new windows with older gpu drivers after DDU, still the same issue. A friend suggested that I should try the Ram - sounds wild I know - and boom, every thing started to work smoothly after removing 1 ram and my guess is the driver was trying to access a bad part of the ram and kept crashing, still testing to know if this the ram or motherboard issue and will update later if anything changed. Update : still Testing, but it seems it's not GPU or driver Issue, every thing started to work smoothly after removing 1 RAM but won't boot up or stuck at restart process so when i change the RAM location it works ! the the problem again, with both RAMs installed it gives me the GPU issue, my guess is the Mother or the RAMs but i think it's the Mother since each RAM is working on it's own without the other.

[@laylaisfat5782]

Did you ever figure it out? I’m having the same problem

[@warhammerLord20]

​@laylaisfat5782 me too! Waiting for RAM test to finish as we speak

[@edplat2367]

You can't trust the windows setttings. Easiest way is to unplug the Ethernet cable or temporarily disable the network adapter in control panel.

[@lifecalisthenics5459]

Jay thank you so much man, thank you truthfully, had a pc service say to me that my GTX 1070ti is faulty and needed a replacement, and offered me a used 1080ti that they told me I needed, I paid for it to save my pc, only for me to watch this video and go through the steps, and bro its working like a charm now. Thank you bro, id fucking pay you if i could.

[@roobski]

Thanks so much for posting this video and the detailed walkthrough. I was having issues after the latest windows 11 update and a recent Nvidia 3080 driver install and I think this may have fixed 90% of it. Still experiencing some choppyness/lag when moving screens around or bringing apps back up on the display, but overall the speed of things loading feels much quicker then it was.

[@DONSIMIO24]

I just got a 3080 also win 11 and i was gaming but kept freezing the pc, hopefully I can fix it too by following this

[@ighways]

​@@DONSIMIO24hey did ya fix it?

[@josemanueltouron]

OH! Me too! not gaming but using visualisation software, while rendering. Suddenly, black screen. You guys have fixed it? @@DONSIMIO24

[@hammies.]

What if I can't even get to safe mode? My computer is just stuck on the boot screen, then a blue screen with "system thread exception not handled". I don't know what to do

[@motivationindrive8514]

Look for manually fix boot mgr or something I can’t rember the exact name there’s video of how to do it

[@uncleandysmobilemechanics]

After trying literally EVERYTHING.....your underclocking feature through msi afterburner has solved my instant BSOD when starting a game. Most appreciated, I was nearing the point of hulk smashing my PC after months of chasing this issue.

[@brucepreston3927]

If you go into the ddu settings, there is a setting that keeps windows from downloading a new driver after it restarts...there is also a ddu setting that when you open ddu it will bring up a prompt to boot into safe mode...you dont need to do the Left Shift key and restart to get to safemode if you are just using ddu...

[@TheSavageBean]

I JUST STUDIED THIS VIDEO FOR over an hour since am getting new gpu.

[@TheSavageBean]

too helpful...sory for caps

[@DatSick]

Lol I'm with you, and congrats on your new GPU! This video will age like wine for the community.

[@XcutAngel]

THANK YOU SO MUCH. I have had several graphics cards over the years as I test different ones for performance on a game I'm making, and I just wanted to come back to this video to thank you for saving me from buying a new CPU and such. I'm 99% sure my problem was my graphics card. That 1% is because I went into bios and saw overclocking was on by default for my CPU. I disabled that. Since following your steps and disabling my CPU's overclocking in bios, my computer has not crashed for nearly a month, whereas before it would do so 1 to 2x per day. My computer freeze did not often come with a BSOD, but there were some crashes that did. Google, chat gpt, and all the rest of the usual go-to's did not offer what this video did. So there ya go, that's my testimonial. IT WORKS AND IT IS SAFE. If you're having issues with your computer, please give the steps in this video a shot and support the channel for its efforts here.

[@DavidSanguineti]

Does Jay rename these videos with something more search engine friendly once the algorithm deems it old? It would be a pleasant surprise to see a Jay video when googling a problem like this.

[@KalebSDay]

I just bookmark niche fixes like this in case I ever need them. Doubt he'll change the title format later on.

[@TheVividdarkside]

This is one of the main reasons this chl stays at the top of the "tech"chls on youtube imo,his content just seems to cover so many real world situations,plus the dude cracks me up keep on making great content guys.

[@tabbarakarim]

Hi I'd like to thank you a 1000 times I'm one of those who installed windows 3 times, after chkdsk scannow DISM, and even installed on a new partition a second windows 11 from scratch. I installed ONLY driver for my AMD RX 9600 XT, No adrenalin... And for the moment it's fine ! Best regards

[@saveEarth69]

is the safe mode version, specifically with Networking necessary or even the usb key? couldnt you just have the DDU file downloaded and ready?

[@supaflex2857]

Yes, you don’t need to use safe mode with networking.

[@SuperMadness101]

My new 4090 got as far as installing the new driver and then went black 😢 someone help me 😭

[@calebhuff2491]

Thank you! This is the fourth video I watched and have read multiple threads on how to fix this. This was the best.

[@jajjo97]

The video has been really helpful, but unfortunately I'm that 1 in 10 people that still has blue screens after installing any graphics driver. I did a purge of my previous drivers, like you've shown in that film, and the first message about driver timeout pops up during the driver instalation. I have the latest version of Win 10, the latest bios for my motherboard, the latest AMD drivers. The situation persists with every version of AMD Adrenaline for my graphics card. Does anyone have any clue what can be wrong?

[@seleni100]

I have the same problem, after ddu, trying to intall the controlers, it din't finish the installation and it appears again the blue screen.. any solution? Thank you;

[@ArmchairMagpie]

I have uninstalled this whole iCUE stuff again after more than a year from my computer because even if I wanted to believe all the things said about it were a hoax or got fixed, it still caused unnecessary CPU load by polling and controlling, preventing C6 residencies and all that only for cooling the heat caused by itself. It might be only a fraction each, but you have to check where it is causing it, usually on the worst core where Windows dumps all the threads that are constantly active for whatever reason (usually LED and messaging stuff). So, it had to go among other apps that showed similar behavior. Since LEDs are pure vanity and the AiO cooler runs fine with firmware settings, the added benefit now is a cooler CPU with lower energy consumption all around. I know this doesn't concern people elsewhere, but when you pay ~32 cents/kWh you do, even as an enthusiast.

[@ge69rh]

Jay you are a life saver! I know this video is 2 years old at this point but it saved me from pullimg my hair out. Finally my system is stable and gaming is sweet again!

[@KenaiUlfr]

General commentary on this particular issue, Microsoft should just improve thier OS and stop crashing the GPU drivers when they reach a cetain amount of time where they appear to have stopped responding. Specific to the TDR issue.

[@yohanag3408]

Exactly, it doesn't happen on other platform except for windows. I also don't understand the "Built for Windows" certification if it breaks the system. To my understanding of my years on Windows, they only want to shove their responsibility to others, claiming it's not their fault when something don't behave correctly. 😁✌🏼

[@InvalidationX145]

@@nobodylmportant Exactly. I'm still running a Windows 7 machine as well, and I'm so glad I did. But there are more and more pieces of software that are requiring Windows 10 to run, so I'm switching over to Linux in my new system (since the motherboard flat out won't support a Windows OS prior to 10). With the forced automatic updates, changing settings without prompting, updating things in the background, and hiding more and more important features behind layers and layers of menus, I'm done with Windows. And now that Valve has gotten Proton running exceptionally well to the point where multiple Anticheats are working, I don't even have to worry about my gaming experience being limited anymore.

[@KenaiUlfr]

@@Gandalf721 I’m an artist professionally - I hate the TDR issue because it’s an asinine implementation. macOS nor Linux crashes itself because it’s arbitrarily decided an operation is taking too long. It’s a great way to cause creatives to lose work and sleep and it’s part of the reason Windows will never be on my business machine.

[@ethanbutler8166]

Thank you for making me aware of this tool. 99% sure this fixed a issue I had had since I built my pc late 2020 I was thinking I had a bad card, thanks Jay!

[@lonettehendrick9836]

Watching your videos I just discovered makes me kinda want to build a computer. At 60 years old I feel confident that I can do it following you.

[@craigcordeiro8530]

I've never had the "Clean Installation" option in the NVidia driver installer not make things worse than they already are. DDU has saved me so many times!

[@Grievous-]

I'm not sure how that is possible as I've always had the "clean install" option.

[@Locutus494]

Why would you not just UNPLUG the ethernet cable to keep Windows from running updates, Jay?! 🤣

[@livelydawg90]

Just bought a new 40 series card and thought it was toast because of sudden lag and blue screen crashes and screen tearing/artifacting and this fixed everything. Also updated my mobo bios following another of your videos and my pc is running like new. Thanks!

[@MrNoon-ob9lg]

Jay, a routine I have regarding GFX drivers and cards - ever since the days of Win 98, has been to always installed the first driver (the driver that the Physical card came with) and the latest. How does this make you feel? Moreover, is this acceptable and of good practice?

[@uncensoredcrimefootage-sou4370]

Please can someone help me. I've done all these things and I can't seem to fix the problem. It started crashing more now after I did this it crashes on simple tasks

[@AmyNumberSeven]

OH GOD. I was having a ton of problems with a corrupted GPU driver earlier this summer that persisted through reinstalling Windows. I had to totally nuke and pave. It was friggin' Fast Boot all along, wasn't it?!

[@Goonsquad413]

i watch all your vids to learn what ive learned, but this video saved my expensive pc's life.... i had recently updated my gpu to a 4090ti and never new the drivers would never corrupt... thank you for your help...

[@kiaradiya6127]

My life has totally changed since I started with $7,000 and now I make $ 29,450 every 11 days of trading.

[@veronicastella2189]

I have heard a lot about investments with Mrs Elizabeth A Palmer and how good she is, please how safe are the profits?

[@ameliamia3788]

I have also been trading with her, The profits are secured and over a 100% return on investment directly sent to my wallet, I'm a living testimony of her work.

[@dislikebutton6596]

This is not simple..

[@josephbertrand6541]

yes it is just follow the directions. if you think this is hard you’re in for a treat if you really get into this stuff lol

[@AEO21Productions]

Yeah this was easy as follow the leader! Still a great video thank you Jay

[@into_the_void]

Meh

[@dannyofdoom1]

Skill issue :)

[@NCPapa]

Fixed my BSOD on Dell Alienware 17R4. Thank u much. Was random at start up. Sometimes once maybe twice, good rest of day. Hardware checks were always good.

[@splaramklusmos]

Literally sent my GPU back to the manufacturer on Friday for having this same issue. FML

[@jadenfoote6175]

same here, had to rma my card because of this😪, if only i knew

[@dennydong196]

Same here buddy, now I feel like a Dirt....