Question Upgraded hardware - cannot install Windows 10

[GroundedSailor]

First, let me state that I'm not sure which forum this question belongs to.

I have an old Dell Vostro 3500 which has an i3 processor and came with a 320 HDD and 4 GB RAM. It has Windows 7 on it.

First, I updated the RAM to 8 GB (Crucial) and the computer ran fine. Then I installed a Crucial 1TB SSD. Using a USB windows 10 media drive, made on another machine, I tried to install win 10 but after it through BIOS its starts with the windows logo and after a while gives an error message:
Your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart
Stop Code: KERNEL SECURITY CHECK FAILURE

The computer then goes into a loop and repeats the boot up and error message sequence.

I'm not sure what to look for. If I put the old HDD back it works fine. I have run diagnostics offered through the boot menu and get no errors.

Anyone come across this before? Or have any suggestions?

Thanks

 

[Steltek]

Has the BIOS been updated to the most recent available BIOS from Dell? And, when you installed the SSD, did you make sure that the SATA mode setting was set to AHCI in the BIOS?

If this laptop also has a discrete video card in addition to the integrated graphics, you might want to set it to run off the integrated graphics until the install is completed.

You may also want to try to disable the "fast boot" option in the BIOS if it is enabled.

If all else fails, try to clone the existing hard drive to the SSD. Then, if it boots with the SSD under Win7, try to run the Win10 upgrade within Windows 7 and choose the clean install option.

 

[mikeymikec]

memtest 7.4, run it until it finishes?
Just because Win7 boots, it doesn't mean that all the RAM is OK.

 

[GroundedSailor]

Has the BIOS been updated to the most recent available BIOS from Dell? And, when you installed the SSD, did you make sure that the SATA mode setting was set to AHCI in the BIOS?

If this laptop also has a discrete video card in addition to the integrated graphics, you might want to set it to run off the integrated graphics until the install is completed.

You may also want to try to disable the "fast boot" option in the BIOS if it is enabled.

If all else fails, try to clone the existing hard drive to the SSD. Then, if it boots with the SSD under Win7, try to run the Win10 upgrade within Windows 7 and choose the clean install option.

1. Yes the BIOS is the latest available at Dell, v 12
2. It only has integrated graphics by Intel
3. I disabled fast boot before replacing the HDD with SSD.
4. Will try cloning.

Thanks

 

[GroundedSailor]

memtest 7.4, run it until it finishes?
Just because Win7 boots, it doesn't mean that all the RAM is OK.

Not having a lot of luck with Memtest. The version they have available for non-EUFI BIOS machines is V4.3.7
https://www.memtest86.com/download.htm

I ran the test and it starts off OK but shows weird characters on the screen and then reboots and goes through the same cycle again. Here are 2 pictures which show 2 random patterns on the screen before it goes into a reboot sequence.

So I used the previous RAM modules and that freezes up a short time after scanning starts - again see picture.

 

[GroundedSailor]

Here are the pictures referenced in the above post

 

[mikeymikec]

Revert the RAM to the old modules and try memtest again.