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0x0124 Hardware Error BSOD randomly
Hello,
I will try to explain everything I know in as much detail as possible.
First off, my system is running Windows 7 Ultimate x64 which was installed about a year ago. I built the computer in September 2010. In late December 2011 I started getting frequent BSODs while playing video games. I had assumed it was because the computer was running too hot so I started using HWMonitor to check my temperatures and the computer was running extremely hot, around 90 degrees Celsius. I later realized that I had the hardware overclocking switches on my motherboard switched on which was causing the heat issues. Once I flipped them off the temperatures dropped to around 55 degrees.
This is likely the cause of my problems as I probably damaged a part running the computer at those temperatures for the course of at least a month. One day in January my computer refused to turn on and I couldn't figure out why, but pulling the RAM and reinserting it fixed the issue. After this however the DVI port on my graphics card began only outputting in B&W, not a big deal since I always use HDMI but I figured if there was a problematic part causing the BSOD it was likely the graphics card because of this.
I finally finished school for the year and decided to try to figure out which part was causing the issue so that I could replace it. I borrowed a graphics card from a friend and tried swapping it in, but my computer continued to BSOD, although it did seem to take longer to do so. I ran the boot version of memtest for a couple of hours and got no errors but I was planning to run it again overnight at some point to test it further. I might be able borrow a processor from a friend this coming weekend out of a computer I built for him which I could swap in to test the processor. I attached the dump files as per the posting instructions with the exception of the perfmon /report which gave me an error message of "the interface is unknown" if anyone knows why that is then I could attach that file too.
I'm just wondering what tests I can perform to try to figure out what part is causing the issues. If you need any other files I will be happy to try to procure them. Thank you.