I've been getting BSOD crashes for a while now, and have given up trying to figure out the problem myself. I've gotten as far as determining that all of the crashes are "Stop 0x124" which indicates a hardware problem, but I have some questions. First I'll describe the problem, which is occuring on a custom-built PC running Vista x64 that had worked flawlessly for over a year before I started getting BSODs.
The crashes started maybe 6 months ago, and as far as I can remember didn't correspond to any hardware changes. They seem to occur most often when I'm streaming video (I watch a lot of soccer over the internet), less often when I'm watching (or capturing) video files, and very rarely when playing games (I can only remember 1 BSOD while gaming since these issues started). Recently I've played a lot of Skyrim and The Witcher 2 (both pretty technically demanding games), and have had no issues with them. I do a fair amount of work in Photoshop and OpenOffice on this computer, and never have issues unless I'm also streaming a video or watching a video file at the same time.
Since the crashes started, I've replaced the RAM and have seen no improvement. I recently ran Memtest86+ and Prime95 and found no issues. I finally decided to try a full reinstall of Vista x64 last week, and the problem continues. I've looked at the CPU and video card temps immediately after a few of the crashes, and they seem to be within normal ranges (54 degrees C for the CPU). I've run chkdsk on the hard drive Vista is installed on and it found no issues. I haven't yet spent the time to run chkdsk on my other hard drives, but is there much of a chance I would learn anything? I finally did enough reading up on the issue to understand that it seems to be a Stop 0x124 every single crash.
So, my main question is, can anything useful be learned from the .dmp files other than that every crash is a Stop 0x124? Anything to point me to what the issue could be? It seems odd to me that the crashes happen only while watching videos either off a hard drive or streamed through one of several various browsers (most commonly Chrome and Firefox). I'm just dreading the thought of having to go through the arduous and cash-consuming process of replacing components piece by piece until I've found the issue. I want an (admittedly unlikely) easy answer.
The crashes started maybe 6 months ago, and as far as I can remember didn't correspond to any hardware changes. They seem to occur most often when I'm streaming video (I watch a lot of soccer over the internet), less often when I'm watching (or capturing) video files, and very rarely when playing games (I can only remember 1 BSOD while gaming since these issues started). Recently I've played a lot of Skyrim and The Witcher 2 (both pretty technically demanding games), and have had no issues with them. I do a fair amount of work in Photoshop and OpenOffice on this computer, and never have issues unless I'm also streaming a video or watching a video file at the same time.
Since the crashes started, I've replaced the RAM and have seen no improvement. I recently ran Memtest86+ and Prime95 and found no issues. I finally decided to try a full reinstall of Vista x64 last week, and the problem continues. I've looked at the CPU and video card temps immediately after a few of the crashes, and they seem to be within normal ranges (54 degrees C for the CPU). I've run chkdsk on the hard drive Vista is installed on and it found no issues. I haven't yet spent the time to run chkdsk on my other hard drives, but is there much of a chance I would learn anything? I finally did enough reading up on the issue to understand that it seems to be a Stop 0x124 every single crash.
So, my main question is, can anything useful be learned from the .dmp files other than that every crash is a Stop 0x124? Anything to point me to what the issue could be? It seems odd to me that the crashes happen only while watching videos either off a hard drive or streamed through one of several various browsers (most commonly Chrome and Firefox). I'm just dreading the thought of having to go through the arduous and cash-consuming process of replacing components piece by piece until I've found the issue. I want an (admittedly unlikely) easy answer.
