BSOD and BCCode 124

When I leave desktop computer on for an extended period of time (say overnight), I find that when I come back to it, it has turned off or rebooted. Sometimes I get a BSOD and other times I get a message saying that Windows did not shut down properly.

There shouldn't be anything going on with the system during these times other than a scheduled nightly backup to an external hard drive. I am using SyncToy for this.

I have done memory and hard disk checks and there were no problems or errors reported.

Attached is the requested files as per the BSOD posting instructions. If anyone can look at these and help me figure out what is going on, it would be greatly appreciated!

If any other info is needed, just let me know.

Thanks!

So sorry! I left out some info:

-Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
-Original OS installed on system was Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. Upgraded through "Anytime Upgrade" option to Professional
-Retail version of Windows
-System is just under two months old
-Original OS installed just under two months ago. Upgrade to Pro done approximately one month ago.

I have tried Steps 1-6 in the mentioned article. Before I proceed to Step 7 (re-installing Windows), I wanted to collect some opinions and see if there was any way to pinpoint the issue.

I believe that the Stop Code 116 error has been resolved already and I did that by following the same suggestion you mentioned. My recent BSOD problems are the two most recent Minidump files in that zip.

Thanks!

rebelagentm said:

When I leave desktop computer on for an extended period of time (say overnight), I find that when I come back to it, it has turned off or rebooted. Sometimes I get a BSOD and other times I get a message saying that Windows did not shut down properly.

There shouldn't be anything going on with the system during these times other than a scheduled nightly backup to an external hard drive. I am using SyncToy for this.

I have done memory and hard disk checks and there were no problems or errors reported.

Attached is the requested files as per the BSOD posting instructions. If anyone can look at these and help me figure out what is going on, it would be greatly appreciated!

If any other info is needed, just let me know.

Thanks!

These crashes were caused by several things but they all point to hardware. Please use these instructions to find out what that means and to figure out what to try.

https://www.sevenforums.com/crash-loc...-what-try.html

The three specific devices listed below are you yukon ethernet controller, your video driver and a generic hardware failure.

Thanks


Ken

Code:

Built by: 7600.16539.amd64fre.win7_gdr.100226-1909
Debug session time: Fri Jul  9 10:10:24.080 2010 (GMT-4)
System Uptime: 0 days 0:00:10.219
BugCheck 124, {0, fffffa800baf1038, 0, 0}
Probably caused by : hardware
BUGCHECK_STR:  0x124_GenuineIntel
PROCESS_NAME:  System
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Built by: 7600.16539.amd64fre.win7_gdr.100226-1909
Debug session time: Mon Jun  7 23:51:38.683 2010 (GMT-4)
System Uptime: 0 days 2:28:16.823
BugCheck 116, {fffffa800ca72070, fffff8800ff5cd50, 0, 2}
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for nvlddmkm.sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for nvlddmkm.sys
Probably caused by : nvlddmkm.sys ( nvlddmkm+11bd50 )
BUGCHECK_STR:  0x116
PROCESS_NAME:  System
¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨
Built by: 7600.16539.amd64fre.win7_gdr.100226-1909
Debug session time: Mon Jun  7 10:05:55.773 2010 (GMT-4)
System Uptime: 0 days 21:24:55.913
BugCheck 9F, {3, fffffa800ab14a20, fffff8000408f518, fffffa800d5b1300}
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for yk62x64.sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for yk62x64.sys
Probably caused by : yk62x64.sys
BUGCHECK_STR:  0x9F
PROCESS_NAME:  System

I believe the errors related to the Yukon Ethernet Controller and the video card have been resolved for a while now. I stopped receiving those errors after enabling IPv6 in Zone Alarm and uninstalling and reinstalling the video card driver respectively.

The recent problems that prompted this post are the 124 errors. A gentleman over at Microsoft Answers suggested that one of the recent dump files implicated my processor as needing to be replaced. I was looking for some additional opinions though before taking hardware out of my system or attempting a re-install of Windows.

I know 124 errors are not easy to pinpoint (since it could be the physical hardware, a driver, the OS, or other software).

As I mentioned earlier, I have already performed Steps 1-6 in the article mentioned. Should I go forward with a clean install of Windows?

Any other analysis or ideas anyone?

Thanks!

Any other thoughts?

A user on another forum is insisting that, based on my minidump files, that this is a CPU and/or motherboard problem and that re-installing Windows will not do any good.

I want to know what the best course of action would be. Should I try the re-install and one-by-one try adding programs? Since these BSODs only occur every other day or so, it would take months to do a one at a time approach of re-installing the OS and programs to see if they cause an issue.

On the other hand, Intel says that I need to remove the processor and try it out in a different system to see if the same issue occurs. They say that this is necessary to avoid wasting time and money because they will not give me an exchange if they test the proc and it turns out to be O.K.

Unfortunately, I don't have another system to test on, which means I would probably have to pay some computer shop to do the work.

Basically, I don't have tons of time and money to be working on this, but I need this computer for day-to-day work.

I know its probably time consuming, but if there is someone out there that has the time, it would be greatly appreciated if someone could assist me in pinpointing the exact cause of these problems.

Thanks!

Anyone?

Thanks! I'm guessing the thought is that the built-in Windows memory test tool is not sufficient enough?