Drivers & Software

[buckthunder]

Oh I've tried these drivers (new and older) many times

[colesdav]

RE: Always the same, driver downloads gets 3/4 done, screen goes black. PC is "on" but monitor (TV) goes black and acts like PC is off.

Try disconnecting the cable to the monitor and then reconnecting it.
Also try installing the GPU drivers with the monitor cable disconnected just before you hit the install button.

I know it shounds crazy but this has happened to me before when installing GPU drivers on RX Vega 64 Liquid.

[colesdav]

RE: After hard reset, PC will freeze during windows load which happens continuously
- Do you have a soft reset button on the PC?

Does pressing that help?

[buckthunder]

I'll give that a shot, I'll give anything a shot lol

[buckthunder]

No, no soft reset unfortunately.  The black screen always appears after I get a notification that AMD needs to restart the PC.  I feel like if I had a button I could press it fast enough and try to put it through or something.

[colesdav]

Have you made sure to go into BIOS amd make sure nothing is overclocked?

I.e. just reset to default.
Thay way you should have no CPU overclock at all and VRAM should be running at low speed specified for the processor.

[colesdav]

No soft reset button at all? Not even connectors for it on the motherboard?

[colesdav]

I think this is your Motherboard Manual.

Please confirm.
https://dlcdnets.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/SocketAM4/PRIME_B450M-A/E14212_PRIME_B450M-A_UM_WEB.pdf 

[buckthunder]

Nothing is over clocked to my knowledge.  However isn't the gpu overclocked?  MSI Mech 5600 xt oc...could that be an issue?

[buckthunder]

that's it yes