I started getting a random lockup while watching YouTube videos. This started about a week ago and I had to hold down the power button on my laptop for a hard shutdown cuz ctrl-alt-delete wouldn't even do anything. This was NOT a BSOD.
Then yesterday when launching Sony Vegas 13, it would load and as soon as I click on for starting a new project... BAM!! ... a BSOD kernel security check failure. It did this every time I launched it.
On the other hand my Cyberlink PowerDirector 14 Ultra still ran and rendered just fine.
I looked up fixes and the first step told me to launch some hidden windows tool that checks and tests drivers. I choose the option that tests all the drivers as the website suggested. The tool said it would need to be done at boot up. So I decided to also schedule a disk repair as well.
I reboot and the disk repair got first dibs. It was doing it's thing just fine for a long while. Now I don't know if it happened after or during the disk repair.... or if it got to the driver test and it happened there.... but a BSOD occurred. It then rebooted and eventually stopped loading to tell me it can't load windows. It then gave me an option to RESTORE. I'm assuming from an earlier restore point. I said yes and after a long while of working, it reboots and I'm back on the desktop just fine.
Then I eventually go to launch PowerDirector 14 and as soon as I put a clip on the timeline.... a BSOD kernel security check failure. So now BOTH my video editors are not usable due to this particular BSOD. Prior to this week I'd never had a BSOD on this 1 year old laptop and very rarely would it crash or lockup. Now all of a sudden I'm getting hammered by both problems.
I've scanned the Windows 10 forums on the net and BSOD has become a much larger issue since that large Windows 10 fall update was issued. I've also read that the latest Nvidia drivers are a big culprit of the most recent BSOD occurrences for many people. This sucks! I hope an older driver fixes this for me. Can't verify it but word has it that Nvidia is aware of this and working on a fix.
