Solved: After all this fuss it would appear a neighbour has installed a new 5ghz router and our network channels may have been overlapping causing the issue. My router was set to automatically choose...

You're a genius. Thank you so much.

I had a number of programs which wouldn't boot at start up for ages now and they were driving me around the twist. This method works a treat.

Thank you.

It is indeed a retail box version, I've tried the clean function using diskpart and it gave me an error.

No go on this one I guess.

Thanks anyhow :)

I followed this procedure with my windows 10 installation usb. Disk part claimed success but I still cannot format it.

To clarify I wish to format it so I can install the latest version of windows...

Ah yes, thanks for the reminder :)

Agreed.

The other important thing I've learnt here is to keep a backup image. It's "using a computer 101" but I guess sometimes some of us think we're above the inevitable, I know I did :P

Good news.

I pulled apart my pc last night, reseated connections with my psu, pulled out the gpu and blew a load of dust of it, and put it all back together after having also installed a new gpu...

Issue persists. I will try another driver but at this point I don't know what to do. All these drivers can't be having the same issue, there must be another problem at work here.

As of now I am...

I'm plugged in with via hdmi which is the only connection I have.

I'm going to try another driver. Will report back.

Ok so it did it again.

I'm going to have to go through the rigmarole of running cmd from the install usb to get to safe mode and uninstalling the card...

Is w10 automatically installing a...

Well I'm currently plugged in and using my 980, it just has no drivers installed right now.

I have just installed everything for my hero vii board. I'm going to restart now without having...

I'm beyond frustrated with this issue.

I've been running windows 10 for quite some time when I had multiple crashes yesterday whilst gaming, culminating in a failed registry fix I attempted which...