STOP 0x124 BSOD in Vista x64 SP2

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!

Hi RevRaven

Have a look at this post:

http://www.vistax64.com/vista-hardware-devices/93467-solution-stop-0x00000124.html

theog said:

Hi RevRaven

Have a look at this post:

http://www.vistax64.com/vista-hardware-devices/93467-solution-stop-0x00000124.html

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I have seen that posting before and I have searched all through my BIOS for such a setting, with no luck. My drives are SATA drives in RAID-0 and I cannot find a reference to 32 bit disk access anywhere in the BIOS. I just loaded it up and went through every single user selectable option in every single screen and found nothing even similar to such a setting. But thanks all the same, it is appreciated!

Revraven

Sorry to tell you but both dumps have little or no information. they are truncated and the faulting process is listed as "unknown". 124's are generally hardware but it could also be a bad driver.

I dont think it is the OS. it might be a downloaded update. We need more info before we can help. what are you doing when it crashes? could it be a heat problem? are you overclocking?

waiting for info

Ken

r u running sli? If so, try disabling and pull one video card. Just as a test...

I'm still baffled how the usb phone could have fried either the sticks, the slots, settings or the memory controller.

zigzag3143 said:

Revraven

Sorry to tell you but both dumps have little or no information. they are truncated and the faulting process is listed as "unknown". 124's are generally hardware but it could also be a bad driver.

I dont think it is the OS. it might be a downloaded update. We need more info before we can help. what are you doing when it crashes? could it be a heat problem? are you overclocking?

waiting for info

Ken

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Well crap, I was hoping those dumps would be full of good info.

I don't think it's a heat issue, as my case's temp is around 5-7c most of the time, and the CPU sits around 38c-40c on idle and 47-48c or so under a full load. I am overclocking my CPU and memory just slightly, and have never had an error until now (or when the board fried in August, I should say).

When I boot Vista into normal mode, as soon as the desktop has loaded (still loading things like Steam and AVG), I get a BSOD. I can boot into safe mode and work for a while, but I'll still either lockup or crash eventually, and then when it crashes in safe mode I'm just surfing the web or even just sitting there idle, it'll lock or crash.

Hello there once again! I have nuked my current Vista install and went to 7 (full install, not upgrade), and this stop error BSOD continues. I would have included the minidump from 7's last crash a few minutes ago..but it's not in %Systemroot%\Minidump. It's configured, but it didn't write the file when it crashed.

So yeah, hardware error right? I've already replaced my memory...what should I consider now? My CPU? My mobo's got a lifetime warrenty, but it was just replaced by eVGA two weeks ago, so I wouldn't think to suspect it?

I don't even know what software I could get to test and determine what needs to be replaced, although at this point my gut instinct is that it's my CPU (of the crashes in 7 I've had so far, one was about 2 minutes into a game of Left4Dead and the other was while watching a video on the web), but I'm often wrong.

RevRaven said:

Hello there once again! I have nuked my current Vista install and went to 7 (full install, not upgrade), and this stop error BSOD continues. I would have included the minidump from 7's last crash a few minutes ago..but it's not in %Systemroot%\Minidump. It's configured, but it didn't write the file when it crashed.

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I'm sorry your problem continues and you're right that it's most likely hardware. Since you are running 7, you may want to move this post to
Windows 7 Forums