Black screen while installing driver

Hi all,
I am having troubles installing drivers on my lenovo y560 notebook. When I install the driver, once the screen goes black then come back (normal). After that, it goes black again and it stays that way. Sometimes the mouse pointer is visible and I can move it but it's vey laggy. Sometimes it seems like the screen tries to load and I can see a grey part on the right side of the monitor refreshing in rows. I tried with different version of windows, different driver versions but it's the same. I can only use my notebook with default windows driver which is 1024x768. I have this pc about 3-4 years now and this happened just one day. I used it before for playing but one day it would not boot, after the windows logo it goes black screen again. Sometimes I can see that the process led is blinking and sometimes not. Maybe my GPU chip is ruined? Also, I am not connecting any HDMI external monitors to it.
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Hi Kennyhun,
Welcome to Lenovo Community!
As per the query we understood that you are facing issues with display in your Lenovo Y560 laptop.
Try to boot the system into BIOS and leave the system for a few minutes and check if there is display flickering or any issues related to display is found, also try to boot the system into safe mode with networking option and check for the issue.
Try to update the BIOS and check for the issue.
Click here for the BIOS update for windows 7.
Hope this helps. Do post back if the issue persists!
Best regards,
Ashwin. S
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