A mechanism is provided for recovering from a failing load check instruction in a processor that implements advanced load instructions. An advanced load address table (ALAT) tracks status information for the advanced load instruction. The status information is read when an associated load check operation is processed, and an exception is triggered if the status information indicates data returned by the advanced load operation was modified by a subsequent store operation. The load check instruction is converted to a load operation, instructions are flushed from the processor's instruction execution pipeline, and the pipeline is resteered to the first instruction that follows the load check instruction.