Trying the windows 10 reinstall right now, pretty nervous, this stuff rarely goes right for me anymore

Well it went well until the screen went totally black then I got the blue screen of death then back to black so I tried googling and got a couple videos that are pretty much THE problem but of course in the video the guys fix worked

Oh it did work a few minutes, long enough for me to hit the AMD site and start downloading their auto-detect driver utility, that's when it went black

Linux has AMD Drivers baked in. So you could make yourself a bootstick on another Computer. I am not sure if it is possible to install the Drivers for your windows installation out of Linux. Probably not. But it might help you confirm it is a Driver problem and not a Hardware problem.. Or you could switch OS. I am a lot more happy on Linux now than I was on Windows.. Since this thread listed alternatives to Windows 10 I just wanted to add that^^

Maybe your card isn't compatible with 10? What is it?

My card is a radeon 7570 w/ 2 gigs of vram, I got the newest driver from AMD today and it was under a list of supported drivers for windows 10, it has worked on windows 10 for a year with no problems until that update. My son said he hasn't had any problems with the update btw so maybe you won't have any problems either. I have a fan running directed at the open side of the case and am wondering if the update could cause it to run hot? I just took the vacuum to it within the last 3 months or so. Going to clean it out again w/i the next couple days as it started up just fine tonight I don't want to chance anything else at the moment. Thank you

Still need help, it either acts like a normal boot to windows 10 or now I get a stopcode violation and the bsod. It hasn't worked since my last post, shortly after my son stepped on my power strip and killed it Any ideas welcome

Your card is listed under cards that don't support Windows 10: https://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articl ... pport.aspx "ATI Radeon™ 7500 Graphics" - it does look like OEM's got updates for the mobile version and there's a smattering of posts about edge case updates to the desktop cards but even those seem last minute shoehorn's and may no longer work with the latest update. I think you're best going back to 7 or 8.

Ha Hi again, you would not believe the problems I have gone through with this, but I finally got it back to Windows 8 and it has booted up normally from shut down and sleep since friday! ;-} It has started randomly shutting down though ;-P One thing or the other right? I had to recover? with the ethernet unplugged and wifi off so windows couldn't update then turned off auto updates before going back online after 2 recoveries updated and failed. The thought of not having my computer running while the grandsons were here for the weekend was scary lol !! '^_^' Thank you very much for the help and support, going to try installing Sims again

Congrats on the successes thus far.