First time posting about really any tech problem so please bear with me here.
I had windows 8.1 64-bit running on my pc for about 18 months or so just fine, but then randomly one day it blue screened, one of the ones with the "
" saying that it will gather info and restart. At first it would only happen when playing some videogame, but then it escalated to when I was web browsing and eventually just a few minutes after booting.
Eventually, after troubleshooting everything I could, I tried reinstalling windows. While it was installing I just got the same error and crash as before. This started to get frustrating so I decided to try windows 7 instead, however I only had a 32-bit version but I desperately needed to use my computer for school so I decided to do it.
To my surprise, windows 7 was working perfectly (except I couldn't do anything that required a 64-bit OS). After my need for the computer was finished I decided to do more troubleshooting with the hardware, I swapped HDD's and even bought a new SSD to see if there was some sort of problem writing while installing, I still got the same error from all of them when I tried installing windows 8 or 8.1.
Here's the kicker, I got windows 7 64-bit but when I tried installing I just got the same exact blue screen error (most of them say under them "KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE" which I have already tried to solve with online solutions to no avail). So I have narrowed it down to being a CPU problem.
I want to just upgrade my CPU, really not a problem for me, but I would like to verify that this is the issue before buying a new one. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
Specs:
AMD FX-8320
MSI 970A-G46
EVGA Geforce GTX 970
I had windows 8.1 64-bit running on my pc for about 18 months or so just fine, but then randomly one day it blue screened, one of the ones with the "
" saying that it will gather info and restart. At first it would only happen when playing some videogame, but then it escalated to when I was web browsing and eventually just a few minutes after booting.Eventually, after troubleshooting everything I could, I tried reinstalling windows. While it was installing I just got the same error and crash as before. This started to get frustrating so I decided to try windows 7 instead, however I only had a 32-bit version but I desperately needed to use my computer for school so I decided to do it.
To my surprise, windows 7 was working perfectly (except I couldn't do anything that required a 64-bit OS). After my need for the computer was finished I decided to do more troubleshooting with the hardware, I swapped HDD's and even bought a new SSD to see if there was some sort of problem writing while installing, I still got the same error from all of them when I tried installing windows 8 or 8.1.
Here's the kicker, I got windows 7 64-bit but when I tried installing I just got the same exact blue screen error (most of them say under them "KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE" which I have already tried to solve with online solutions to no avail). So I have narrowed it down to being a CPU problem.
I want to just upgrade my CPU, really not a problem for me, but I would like to verify that this is the issue before buying a new one. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
Specs:
AMD FX-8320
MSI 970A-G46
EVGA Geforce GTX 970
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