Hi all,
This might be a long shot, but recently I built a PC and installed Windows 10 Pro. What is weird is that randomly I will get a blue screen of death, and it is always KERNAL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE for the stopcode. This will happen a couple times a day, and it is not consistent with the apps I am using (Steam, Chrome, etc.) Something I have noticed is that this will most likely happen if I download something bigger than the average download. For instance, when installing Assassin's Creed IV (Black Flag) from Steam, it crashed. But what concerns me more is that sometimes I will just be working on Chrome and it will crash. I'm not sure if it is a bad driver because after a week I wiped my computer and reinstalled Windows from scratch. It was working fine until recently, but I haven't downloaded anything suspicious at all. Anything on my new PC is on my laptop which is working just fine on Windows 10.
I ran a RAM test and it came back with no errors. I also took out my GPU and ran the PC like that and it still crashed, so I don't believe hardware is the problem, most likely a bad driver..? I have Geforce Experience downloaded which said that my drivers are up to date. When I tried installing the driver for my GPU from the official Gigabyte website, my computer crashed while it was downloading (KERNAL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE).
If anybody has any help or suggestions they would be much appreciated.
Thanks
Here are my system specs:
CPU: Intel Core i7-8700k
Motherboard: Asus Prime Z370-A
RAM: G.Skill Trident Z RGB DDR4-3000 (2x8GB)
GPU: Gigabyte GTX 1070 Ti Gaming 8G
CPU Cooler: NZXT Kraken x52
SSD: Samsung 860 evo 500GB
HDD: Seagate 2TB
PSU: EVGA 750 Watt gold
Case: NZXT H500 (White)
Windows 10 Pro 64 bit