Vista - Stop 0x00000124

Here's one to mull over.

I'm erractically receiving a Stop 0x00000124 error, which seems to be related to when I'm playing music. Oddly enough, I disabled Sidebar and I haven't had this error for nearly a week, and then now just a few minutes ago after opening Media Player and starting my favourite playlist.

It would appear that the error is related to the sound hardware, but usually when a driver fails and creates a stop error, then the BSOD show the driver file that faulted, but not this time.

There are times when I can run Media Player for hours without error. At other times, it only takes a few minutes to BSOD.

These are my system specs:

AMD 64x2 4800+
ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe
4GB DDR400
Leadtek nVidia 6600, 128MB
1.2 TB Hard Disk storage
Windows Vista Ultimate x64

Take a look at the ASUS webpage and check drivers there. If there's nothing newer but betas, you may even want to try one of those.

Also, if you think it's a driver issue, check your onboard sound driver. If you've got the newest, try rolling back. If you've got an older one, try updating.

Let us know as this develops and we'll see if anyone can solve it.

One step ahead of you.

I'm pretty sure I'm using the latest drivers, but I have checked ASUS anyway, just in case.

I've also just realized something. Think it's possible that the JBOD configuration on some of my hard disk may be the issue? I could be wrong, but I believe this STOP 0x00000124 error started shortly after setting up JBOD.

Seeing as this error is pretty erratic, it may be awhile.

Could be that. Check your BIOS settings. If somehow there's a PnP issue with the JBOD config, you may have an issue. Something is making me think it might have to do with the CD/DVD drive. Check that configuration as well.

Something else I've found with some checking is that this seems to happen with computers with nVidia 6600s. No one else seems to be pointing the finger there, but that may be something to consider. I'm as lost as you, so I'm just looking for patterns.

What type of sound are you using? On-board? Card? Realtek? Creative?

Search for Stop 0x00000124 on Microsoft Support (http://search.microsoft.com/results.aspx?mkt=en-GB&qsc0=0&SearchBtn0=Search&q=0x00000124&first=10&FORM=PNME), and All results make mention of nVida 8800 + Any Sound, or than happen during installation or to RC1.

None give a workable solution.

I use the ASUS A8N32-Sli-Deluxe on-board sound, the Realtek® ALC850 8-channel CODEC. If I use the drivers provided by ASUS or REALTEK, then sound doesn't work at all. The only way to get the sound to work, oddly enough, is to use the drivers found by Windows Update, which are newer than the ones I can get from ASUS.

I did get an odd message earlier, too, when attempting to check the speaker setup. "A problem was detected with your sound hardware. Would to like to turn off advanced driver functions?"

What's gives with that?

Anyway, right now I'm moving what's currently not on backup off of the JBOD setup, so that I can have the drives show up individually again, to see if that helps.

This has got to be one of the most annoying problem I've encountered yet!