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Windows has shutdown to prevent damage blue screen error
About a week ago I noticed my computer became uncharacteristically slow, so I ran a full computer virus scan to check for infections and nothing turned up.
Yesterday I found the culprit of the slow down, it was a process called "system interrupts" it was using 25% of my processor all the time. I came back to my computer an hour or so later to a blue screen that said windows has shutdown to prevent damage.
I restarted my computer in safe mode without networking, and system interrupts is not using more than .1% processor power, so something that gets turned off in safe mode must be the culprit.
After a couple of internet searches it seems that the problem is likely some that one of my hardware drivers is corrupted and needs to be reinstalled.
What I would like to know is how I should check which hardware driver is the culprit?
Also, which drivers should would be a waste of my time to check? i.e. I would assume that the driver for my hard drive is not the culprit as it is still used in safe mode.
By the way this is a Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit OS