Updated GPU drivers and now PC is not running right again

So I had recently brought my pc into the shop and the guy said he couldn't find anything wrong with it and updated my graphics card drivers. After I got it back everything was working great. Just today I upgraded my drivers to the most recent version and I am having issues again. What am I doing wrong? It says I am running the most recent drivers in adrenaline and in device manager it says they are working fine. However, I am back to having issues with the secondary monitor and my games are running bad again. I fear I have undid what the guy did at the pc shop. I have never had issues like this before with graphics drivers. I simply updated the drivers through adrenaline and followed the prompts. I kinda was hesitant about upgrading the drivers because my pc was working well again. I really wanna know what I am doing wrong. Previously I was getting PC lock-ups and freezes. Haven't had that happen yet as I just upgraded the drivers. I fear I am right back to square 1 again. I am noticing the same issues as before i brought the pc to the shop minus the hard lock ups so far.

Can you try going into Device Manager and right-clicking on the graphics card under Display adapters. Select properties then click on the Driver tab. Is the option to Roll Back Driver available? If so, try rolling back and see if the issues go away again.

rick99 said:

Can you try going into Device Manager and right-clicking on the graphics card under Display adapters. Select properties then click on the Driver tab. Is the option to Roll Back Driver available? If so, try rolling back and see if the issues go away again.

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I just used amd cleanup utility and went back to driver 23.2.1 for now. I truly don't understand why this is happening and its extremely frustrating. Now from here on out, I am going to be scared to upgrade my driver. It was showing all the right version and everything in device manager and said the driver was working properly. Apparently it was not though as shortly after installing it my pc hard locked again. So I know 100% it was gpu drivers locking up my pc.

Every AND GPU driver update has an option for clean installation with or without keeping the settings too. That requires an extra reboot as it removes old drivers first and installs new ones at next BOOT,
There is also a program called DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller) which now can uninstall audio drivers too. There is also an option not to let windows install default drivers which can cause some mixups, Alternative is to disconnect from internet until driver installation is finished.