Vista - Solution to STOP 0x00000124

Some of the regulars on this forum may remember that I posted a question a while back regarding STOP 0x00000124 on Vista Ultimate x64.

Well, for those of you that may be experiencing this same problem, I believe I've found the solution.

To recap, I recently experienced severe occurances of STOP 0x124, sometimes as much a 4 times in as many minutes, especially after some instensive HDD activity! It became so bad, that I could eventually predict that a distinctive "click" coming from within my case, and a sudden, extreme slowdown of the system meant that a STOP 0x124 was not too far behind.

The odd thing was, that even the resulting BSOD crashed when it was initializing the dump in preparation for the error report to Microsoft.

Most support forums, including Microsofts own, pointed to bad sound card drivers conflicting with the video card drivers, mostly those from nVidia. After rolling back my video driver to the WHQL drivers in Vista, and disabling my sound, I still experienced STOP 0x124.

Because of the nasty click sounds from the case just before the crash, I next checked and removed my RAID JBOD confifuration, and determined that this too was not the problem, as the BSODs continued.

I was at my wits end, and downloaded a utility to check the SMART status of my hard drives. This tool reported no faults, and claimed my hard disks where all ok.

So right about then, I resigned myself to the possibility of losing data to a STOP 0x124 error, and chalked it up to a bug in Vista x64. So I'll wait a few months for SP1 to solve the issue. I could live with that, even if my over taxed stress levels could not.

But I then noticed something extremely odd in my BIOS a few days ago. For some apparent reason, the 32-Bit Disk Access for one of my hard disks was turned off!

The only time I recall needing to turn off 32-Bit Disk Access was way back when with Windows 3.1, so I turned it back on. And double checked the settings also for the rest of my hard disks, just to be sure.

I'll keep you all posted, but it seems as though the problem has gone away. My system is running smoothly again, and has been doing so for now nearly 3 days straight, without any BSODs whatsoever. I've even gone back to all my original drivers before the problem started, and have reconfigured my RAID JBOD settings.

Check your Hard Disk settings in your BIOS if you're experiencing STOP 0x124 errors. It worked for me, so it may just do the same for you.

Hope this info helps!

Thank you so very much for this solutions, have had this problem for two weeks now.
Did not notice that the problem started after I updated my BIOS.

Let me know if it worked for you too. Unless it already has?

"Dzomlija" <Dzomlija.36yxq9@xxxxxx-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
newszomlija.36yxq9@xxxxxx-mx.forums.net...Firstly, a decent mobo will check the timings/SPD rating and work to the
lowest common denominator, so there shouldn't be a problem.

5-5-5-18 is pretty standard for PC2-6400; your kingston will be the same
timings or faster - problem either way.

If you install just the kingston sticks, you can find out the timings
through CPUZ - or better still, just check the timings on the Kingston site.

The only gotcha is if different sticks require drastically different
voltages, but that is unlikely.

Suck it and see, as they say.

What kind of soulution did he came up with?

Seems like the user got deleted-.-

sigh

Yes it did work for me and my computer has been crash free ever since

I recently had this issue as well and read a couple forums and decided
to try removing the wireless network card which happened to be a pci-e
card, which is probably why the pci-e video card I was using conflicted
with it. If you are having this issue, try removing anything that may
use a similar bus (ie, the pci-e if it's a pci-e card and pci if it's
pci).

OS: Windows Vista 32-bit
Mainboard: a8n-sli32 deluxe
cpu: amd 4200+ dual core
vga: bfg nvidia 8800gtx
memory: 2gb corsair xms
wifi card: dlink pci-e extreme-n wifi (removed this)


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I think that the solution is correct but cannot find this setting at all in my BIOS! I have an HP dv9500 laptop and the BIOS really seems way to simple. I have tried looking through computer management, disc management, etc... but nothing. Also HP is being no help. Any chance anyone can help me out? I think I started the problem by dual booting Ubuntu 64 bit on my extra hard drive. I have removed Ubuntu and reformatted the hard drive but I believe this is when the problem began. I have vista ultimate x64 and this BSOD seems completely random to me. Thank you for any help!

Every BIOS is different, and the setting may not necessairly be labelled "Enable 32-Bit Disk Access". It could be along the lines of "High Speed Access" or "Advanced Configuration", etc.

That is, of course, assuming that the BIOS exposes that particular option to the user.

Have you tried locating and installing an updated BIOS for you machine?

I'm kind of unsure how to do this. Would my HP update automatically do this or is it something that I would have to seek out on the HP site?