Everything was working fine before I went away for a week and came home yesterday.
GeForce Experience said there was an update for GPU driver, so I updated.
Now it's crashing and freezing everything, my computer disabled the card because of a "problem".

So I did a clean install, same thing.
So I reinstalled windows, installed the drivers, same thing.

Should I revert to an old driver version?
GeForce 431.60 is the new release I am trying to install.

How do I pinpoint the issue / fix it?

MSI GE72MVR 7RG Apache Pro
GTX 1070 8GB

try old driver if it persists i doubt its the update and more then likely the card.
use ddu

Why would the card randomly crap out in between uses though?
The laptops only a year and a half old too, not used heavily.
Shit breaks though of course

On another note, I haven't updated windows 10 in forever, I read that could be an issue with the new driver.
Updating now then I will test again.

why does random shit happen? cause its RANDOM SHIT.

True story... Just a shitty one for me

Turns out I have a 2 year warranty, they are issuing an RMA!
Thank you dear baby jesus..don't even know a word yet, just a little infant, so cuddly, but still omnipotent.

Did you even use ddu and old drivers?

Yes