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BSOD (BC Code 124) (Very detailed)
Hello there,
I have been having BSODs on a very frequent rate. At first I thought I could solve it by myself, searching in google for people with similar problems, but despite all the effort I couldn't track down the problem. So I am here to kindly ask for your help.
I had Windows Vista installed on my computer for like two years, and at some point, it started to give BSODs everyday. I thought it was some conflict with all the junk the computer accumulated in these two years, so I decided it was time to move on to Windows 7 and give the system a fresh start.
Just after the installing Windows 7, on the first system boot, it crashed. Before I could install any drivers at all. Obviously I thought it was driver related, since no drivers were installed. But the problem persisted, even after installing the newest drivers from the manufacturer.
I searched google for people with BSODs with BC Code 124, and learned that it is probably a hardware related problem, so I started testing the system in search for the hardware faulty. After some tests on my own, I constated the system hard drive was having a very unstable performance compared to the other drivers, so I decided to reinstall the system on another hard drive (One which was very stable on tests) and see if that could fix the problem.
It didn't, the system continued to crash in the same way, and the new hard drive had the very same unstable peformance like the old one (Which gave a estable performance). I thought the tests weren't accurate because the hard drive with the system installed had to withstand heavy load by the SO, which caused what I thougth to be an unstable performance.
Since then, I've done the following:
1) Ran memtest86 three times. No problems found.
2) Stressed the system with Everest to look for overheating problems. All temperatures were OK.
3) Removed all hardware from the mainboard and did a proper cleaning in each of them. No success.
4) Started the system with just the system hard drive and the sound board removed. No success.
5) Started the system in safe mode. Success, no BSOD whatsoever. I ran the system for a day, not sure if it was just luck. (Will try this again just to be sure)
6) Installed another SO (Ubuntu) on other HD. Success, no crashs on Linux, I've been running it for like a week.
7) Changed all SATA cables for fresh new ones. No success.
Important notes about the BSOD: It is completely random. There isn't anything I can do in the system to make this BSOD happen. I can be browsing the web, playing a game, programming, looking at pictures or movies, it will crash. Sometimes the system runs for like three hours with no BSOD and sometimes it BSODs three times in half an hour. There was a day the system BSOD and when the computer finished restarting, that Windows finished loading, it gave a BSOD again, before I could even give the computer any command. The BSODs occur at a rate, I'd say, of about one every two hours.
The BSOD is always the same, Windows says an unrecoverable hardware error caused the system to crash, and that the BC Code is 0x00000124, either caused by hal.dll or ntoskrnl.exe.
There is a detailed report at the end of the post, I've followed all BSOD Posting Instructions of the forum. My system specs are the following:
SO - Windows 7 Professional x64
CPU Type - DualCore Intel Core 2 Duo E8400, 3000 MHz
Motherboard Name - MSI P7N2 Diamond (MS-7523)
Motherboard Chipset - nVIDIA nForce 790i Ultra SLI
System Memory - 4096 MB (DDR3-1333 DDR3 SDRAM)
DIMM1: OCZ XTC Platinum OCZ3P16002G
DIMM2: OCZ XTC Platinum OCZ3P16002G
BIOS Type - AMI (09/05/08)
Video Adapter - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 (1024 MB)
Audio Adapter - Creative SB X-Fi Xtreme HD Audio Controller
Disk Drive - SAMSUNG HD250HJ SCSI Disk Device (250 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA-II)
Power Supply - SevenTeam V-Force 850W
The system was bought on the early of 2008, so it has about two years and half of use.
Thank you very much for your help.
Kind regards,
Davi Duarte