Hello everyone! This forums has been a great help to me in the past, but this time my issue is so serious I had to register and post!
I'm getting the dreaded stop 0x124 BSOD. I have included two of my minidumps with this post.
Errors: STOP 0x00000124 (Other error codes that have appeared include the following: FFFFFA8007CE0030, 00000000B6000400, 5200810, FFFFFA8008539030. I haven't wrote any of the error codes down from today.)
Hardware:
Mobo: Evga 680i 122-NF68-A1 with P33 BIOS
CPU: Q6600 @2.7 Ghz (lapped with a Tuniq Tower CPU cooler)
RAM: Corsair Dominator TWIN2X4096-8500C5D @ 900 Mhz (Brand new) at 2.1v
Video: 2x Evga 8800 GTX
PS: Silverstone Strider 750w
HDD: 2x Samsung 7200RPM 500MB drives in RAID-0 (sorry, I don't have access to the exact model at the current)
OS: Vista Ultimate x64 SP2
Here's my story: In August I plugged in my phone via USB and my PC started rebooting and I was getting a C1 memory error. I had the board replaced by Evga, which I got up last week. When I got the new board in I occasionally would get the 0x124 BSOD, in games and while just browsing the web, leading up to constant BSODs upon Vista boot this past Sunday. My system was rock solid before the August USB phone incident, having been setting at the above settings for well over a year with no problems or heat issues or anything out of the ordinary.
At the time I was running 4GB of Corsair Dominator Memory (4x1GB sticks, the TWIN2x2048-8500C5D variety). I ran Memtest86+ and got over 2300 errors over a 6+ hour period of time! So I ordered my new memory. Meanwhile I tested all my RAM again (as groups of 2 and as set of 4) and got no errors at all. New memory gets in, test it, no errors. Still getting the 0x124 BSOD upon booting to a desktop.
I can boot into safe mode and work there for a little while, but eventually I'll still either lockup or BSOD (longest I was up was an 1 hour 15 minutes, when I shut it down). I've been trying to get the Windows Diagnostic Dump Reader thingy to work, but I'm having a heck of a time with the symbols file. This is my original install of Vista from September '07, upgraded through SP1 and 2.
I've upgraded all my drivers (even tried the latest beta video drivers from Nvidia), turned the C1E CPU setting to disabled, checked everything I knew to check and still nothing.
My questions are, based off my dump files, what could be the problem? I'm kinda learning towards the OS, but why would I get an unrecoverable hardware BSOD error? I'm also kinda wondering about why I got so many RAM errors only to later have none, but I can only attribute that to possibly having the memory improperly seated. I'm really hoping this is more of a Windows issue than a hardware issue, but I will replace even more hardware if need be!
As someone who loves his desktop very much, this is very troubling matter. I'm usually pretty good at troubleshooting, but this beats the hell outta me. Any help you folks could provide would be much appreciated!
I'm getting the dreaded stop 0x124 BSOD. I have included two of my minidumps with this post.
Errors: STOP 0x00000124 (Other error codes that have appeared include the following: FFFFFA8007CE0030, 00000000B6000400, 5200810, FFFFFA8008539030. I haven't wrote any of the error codes down from today.)
Hardware:
Mobo: Evga 680i 122-NF68-A1 with P33 BIOS
CPU: Q6600 @2.7 Ghz (lapped with a Tuniq Tower CPU cooler)
RAM: Corsair Dominator TWIN2X4096-8500C5D @ 900 Mhz (Brand new) at 2.1v
Video: 2x Evga 8800 GTX
PS: Silverstone Strider 750w
HDD: 2x Samsung 7200RPM 500MB drives in RAID-0 (sorry, I don't have access to the exact model at the current)
OS: Vista Ultimate x64 SP2
Here's my story: In August I plugged in my phone via USB and my PC started rebooting and I was getting a C1 memory error. I had the board replaced by Evga, which I got up last week. When I got the new board in I occasionally would get the 0x124 BSOD, in games and while just browsing the web, leading up to constant BSODs upon Vista boot this past Sunday. My system was rock solid before the August USB phone incident, having been setting at the above settings for well over a year with no problems or heat issues or anything out of the ordinary.
At the time I was running 4GB of Corsair Dominator Memory (4x1GB sticks, the TWIN2x2048-8500C5D variety). I ran Memtest86+ and got over 2300 errors over a 6+ hour period of time! So I ordered my new memory. Meanwhile I tested all my RAM again (as groups of 2 and as set of 4) and got no errors at all. New memory gets in, test it, no errors. Still getting the 0x124 BSOD upon booting to a desktop.
I can boot into safe mode and work there for a little while, but eventually I'll still either lockup or BSOD (longest I was up was an 1 hour 15 minutes, when I shut it down). I've been trying to get the Windows Diagnostic Dump Reader thingy to work, but I'm having a heck of a time with the symbols file. This is my original install of Vista from September '07, upgraded through SP1 and 2.
I've upgraded all my drivers (even tried the latest beta video drivers from Nvidia), turned the C1E CPU setting to disabled, checked everything I knew to check and still nothing.
My questions are, based off my dump files, what could be the problem? I'm kinda learning towards the OS, but why would I get an unrecoverable hardware BSOD error? I'm also kinda wondering about why I got so many RAM errors only to later have none, but I can only attribute that to possibly having the memory improperly seated. I'm really hoping this is more of a Windows issue than a hardware issue, but I will replace even more hardware if need be!
As someone who loves his desktop very much, this is very troubling matter. I'm usually pretty good at troubleshooting, but this beats the hell outta me. Any help you folks could provide would be much appreciated!
My Computer
System One
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- CPU
- Intel Core2Quad Q6600 OC'd @ 2.7Ghz
- Motherboard
- Evga 680i 122-NF68-A1 with P33 BIOS
- Memory
- Corsair Dominator TWIN2X4096-8500C5D @ 900 Mhz @ 2.1v
- Graphics card(s)
- 2x Evga 8800GTX
- Sound Card
- Onboard
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 19" Viewsonic
- Screen Resolution
- 1440x900
- PSU
- Silverstone Strider 750w
- Case
- XCLIO Windtunnel
- Cooling
- Tuniq Tower 120 w/ Arctic Silver on a lapped CPU
