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hajime

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Hi, for the past 10 days, it has happened about six times that when I booted into Windows 10 on the MBP 16" 2019, I got a blue screen with "Kernel Security Check Failure". How likely this is caused by hardware failure? What is the best way to get this fixed? From the internet, it looks like if not done properly, the machine will get into endless reboot loop so I hesitate to pick a random unknown site and follow the steps.
 

maflynn

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It seems like a somewhat common occurrence with Macs - at least new-ish models.

Check this out:
https://www.reddit.com/r/macgaming/comments/f8fi7x
I had the same issue yesterday and might have fixed it with disabling FileVault (Mac security settings).

I got this Kernel Security Check Failure always as soon windows is booting for the first time and the setup is asking for the key, after 6 times rebooting without any major changes (Tried resetting NVRAM and SMC, did not help) I disabled FileVault and the Win10 install worked as expected, maybe this was just random maybe not... after the Win10 installation was done I re-enabled FileVault again...

--> MacBook Pro 16" on latest MacOS
--> Windows 10, last available download directly from Microsoft
 
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hajime

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Thanks. I checked but FileVault is already off. I got my MBP around February and no problem until recently.
 
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