Booting to a flashing white screen - PC works fine in safe mode though

So I got home from a (bad) day at work and of course my PC decides to give me a flashing white screen immediately after the motherboard splash ("military grade").

If I do a safe boot, I can run the computer fine without issues (played MGSV at max settings at 1440p with no artifacts) so I assume it's not a hardware problem.

I just upgraded to Windows 10 from 8.1 over the weekend. I did a restore point to 2 days ago but that didn't help. Everything was literally fine until today. No issues at all and I was running W10 for several days without anything like this. Any ideas? The flashing white screen has some colour artifacts here and there (like blocks of various colours, almost like a 16-bit game) and I can still see the mouse and move it around fine.

The PC is relatively new (got a 980/i5-4690k for The Witcher 3 launch) so hoping it's not hardware related at least.

 

I just used Display Driver Uninstaller to do a clean wipe of my GPU driver and re-installed the latest Windows 10 Nvidia version but without any of the 3D stuff/HD audio - seems to have fixed it!

 

355.82 seems to be causing issues, especially on desktop.. I've not had any problems on my Batman and hopefully it's stays that way!

 

They also have 355.98 release now.

The problem here is some that going to Win10 also was part of the problem my course here is if Win8.1 was working going to Win10 isn't going to improve it - also installing a O/S that isn't factory also comes with it's own problems as well - unless this is a custom motherboard system setup then one needs to make sure the board has drivers related to Win10 before going to it.

The PC is relatively new (got a 980/i5-4690k for The Witcher 3 launch) so hoping it's not hardware related at least.[/QUOTE]

They do have 355.98 out now....but that will depend on your GPU version if it can use it. Had no problems on Win7x64 with Pillars of Eternity.