The reason is that NVIDIA has announced that it ends the support for CPUs that dont support POPCNT.
What does this mean?
It means that Windows 10/11 computers with unsupported CPUs will experience BSODs after installing the driver Release 555.
NVIDIA driver loses POPCNT support causing BSOD.
you’re free to install this latest driver successfully.
However, it will give a shot to look for POPCNT after you cycle your PC.
If it cant find it, your PC will boot into a blue screen of death.
How to Avoid BSODs because of NVIDIA Driver Version 555
BSOD is an annoying issue.
This can temporarily prevent your Windows from booting into BSOD.
How to Disable NVIDIA Update?
Right-tap the desktop and selectNVIDIA Control Panel.
Then go toHelpand selectUpdate.
Uncheck theAutomatically check for updates checkbox.
ClickApplythenOKto save the change.
How to test whether Your CPU Supports POPCNT?
In the officialannouncements, NVIDIA has introduced a way to test whether your CPU supports POPCNT.
The tool mentioned is calledCoreinfo.
Go tohttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/coreinfoto download Coreinfo.
Extract files from the Coreinfo zip file.
Step 3. bring up the extracted folder, then right-click and selectOpen in Terminal.
Step 4. jot down.\coreinfo64 -fand pressEnter.
If it is the first time for you to launch Coreinfo, you will see the license agreement interface.
Click theAgreebutton to continue.
This tool will list your computers supported CPU.
you’re free to find POPCNT to look to see if it is supported by your CPU.
Additionally, it’s possible for you to also use other tools like CPU-Z and WhyNotWinAI to check POPCNT.
you could refer to this post to do the job:How to Recover Data When PC Wont Boot?
Try the methods listed in this post to avoid or fix the BSOD issue.
If you better retrieve your data on Windows, you’re able to try MiniTool Power Data Recovery.
