Hey everyone. Hope you guys have a little time to help me out.
My cousin and I built our PCs together and mine is running just fine. However, a lightning storm hit my cousin's house and he began to have issues with his computer. His graphics card got kind of shorted so the HDMI port no longer worked.
Recently, he went to the States and came back with a brand new GTX 970. He also replaced his RAM with 1866Mhz RAM from Corsair (I made sure the motherboard could handle it before he bought them).
He's getting random blue screens on a fresh install of Windows 8.1. We ran Driver Booster to update all his drivers and we tried figuring out.
The first error he got was something like IRQL something. Reinstalling his video drivers made that problem go away but just this morning, he called me and said that he's randomly blue screening with an error called:
KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_ERROR
I am basically out of ideas. It's not his video card, it's not his RAM and not his processor. I can only conclude it's the hard drive.
Is there anything I can do to help him resolve this issue? I'm sure he'd be willing to get a new hard drive but he wants to be sure that's the problem before he spends anymore money.
My cousin and I built our PCs together and mine is running just fine. However, a lightning storm hit my cousin's house and he began to have issues with his computer. His graphics card got kind of shorted so the HDMI port no longer worked.
Recently, he went to the States and came back with a brand new GTX 970. He also replaced his RAM with 1866Mhz RAM from Corsair (I made sure the motherboard could handle it before he bought them).
He's getting random blue screens on a fresh install of Windows 8.1. We ran Driver Booster to update all his drivers and we tried figuring out.
The first error he got was something like IRQL something. Reinstalling his video drivers made that problem go away but just this morning, he called me and said that he's randomly blue screening with an error called:
KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_ERROR
I am basically out of ideas. It's not his video card, it's not his RAM and not his processor. I can only conclude it's the hard drive.
Is there anything I can do to help him resolve this issue? I'm sure he'd be willing to get a new hard drive but he wants to be sure that's the problem before he spends anymore money.
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