Thommy
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I have an old (~9 years) Medion Erazer (Windows 10) desktop which had been experiencing several issues as of late. One of those issues was random computer freezes, predominantly when playing video games. I realized that I had several broken registers on my computer which I tried to fix with a Windows re-install. This temporarily fixed the crashes but they kept occurring after a while. One of my drivers was also broken and showed an exclamation mark with a code 10 error message when I tried to update the driver in device manager.
Now, in doing so, I think I messed up and accidentally installed the wrong driver file. Instead of manually updating the driver that was broken (I don't remember which one it was) I think I installed it in my display driver.
Shortly after doing so, (few hours) my screen started glitching slightly and then another full-on computer freeze occurred. When I tried to reboot the computer, my device would turn on (and along with it keyboard, mouse etc) but the screen would remain black, except for a thin line of pixels. (white and green) At the very start, it shows "Medion" for a few seconds on screen, but after that it only shows a black screen and those pixels.
Since I can't access my computer anymore, I'm pretty much lost on how to fix this issue, if possible at all. Any suggestions would be very welcome. Thanks a lot.
tl;dr: Installed the wrong driver file in my display driver and now computer screen won't turn on except for a few pixels.
P.s: I wasn't exactly sure where to post this, hope it belongs here.
I have an old (~9 years) Medion Erazer (Windows 10) desktop which had been experiencing several issues as of late. One of those issues was random computer freezes, predominantly when playing video games. I realized that I had several broken registers on my computer which I tried to fix with a Windows re-install. This temporarily fixed the crashes but they kept occurring after a while. One of my drivers was also broken and showed an exclamation mark with a code 10 error message when I tried to update the driver in device manager.
Now, in doing so, I think I messed up and accidentally installed the wrong driver file. Instead of manually updating the driver that was broken (I don't remember which one it was) I think I installed it in my display driver.
Shortly after doing so, (few hours) my screen started glitching slightly and then another full-on computer freeze occurred. When I tried to reboot the computer, my device would turn on (and along with it keyboard, mouse etc) but the screen would remain black, except for a thin line of pixels. (white and green) At the very start, it shows "Medion" for a few seconds on screen, but after that it only shows a black screen and those pixels.
Since I can't access my computer anymore, I'm pretty much lost on how to fix this issue, if possible at all. Any suggestions would be very welcome. Thanks a lot.
tl;dr: Installed the wrong driver file in my display driver and now computer screen won't turn on except for a few pixels.
P.s: I wasn't exactly sure where to post this, hope it belongs here.
