BSOD during very random occasions. Thought it was flash but not sure

I've been trying to diagnose this problem myself for quite some time... Been reading crash dumps. It's always a Vista driver fault. What I find strange is that its caused very randomly by different processes. Sometimes by a game, my browser, or even explorer.exe. It's so random that I can't figure out how to truly reproduce the problem. I've jsut a about given up.

Im using Windows 7 Ultimate x64 OEM. It's a laptop i've had since the latter half of 09. I did a clean install of window's earlier this year. Been having these random BSOD for a little over a month now.

windlessuser said:

I've been trying to diagnose this problem myself for quite some time... Been reading crash dumps. It's always a Vista driver fault. What I find strange is that its caused very randomly by different processes. Sometimes by a game, my browser, or even explorer.exe. It's so random that I can't figure out how to truly reproduce the problem. I've jsut a about given up.

Im using Windows 7 Ultimate x64 OEM. It's a laptop i've had since the latter half of 09. I did a clean install of window's earlier this year. Been having these random BSOD for a little over a month now.

Your .dmp file shows a stop error of 0x124 which is a general hardware error .

A "stop 0x124" is fundamentally different to many other types of bluescreens because it stems from a hardware complaint.

Stop 0x124 minidumps contain very little practical information, and it is therefore necessary to approach the problem as a case of hardware in an unknown state of distress.

Some generic advice.

If you are overclocking STOP. return to the default settings at least for now.
If you are running a RAID update its driver.


You can read more on this error and what to try here... Stop 0x124 - what it means and what to try

I dunno. I've tried some things in that post. 1stly I'm not over clocking as this is a laptop. I've been doing some stress testing. Mem Diagnostics 5-8 passes, a chkdsk /r /f, other hd stress tests, as well as stress testing my video card using some benchmarking software. It doesn't BSOD during any of these tests. It just BSOD very randomly, I truly dont know what of my hardware is failing

windlessuser said:

I dunno. I've tried some things in that post. 1stly I'm not over clocking as this is a laptop. I've been doing some stress testing. Mem Diagnostics 5-8 passes, a chkdsk /r /f, other hd stress tests, as well as stress testing my video card using some benchmarking software. It doesn't BSOD during any of these tests. It just BSOD very randomly, I truly dont know what of my hardware is failing

could be heat, power, dust, cpu, mobo, etc. How old is it?

I've taken it apart and blew all the dust out. I've been monitoring the temperature, it stays around 45-50 degrees Celsius. It's about 3-4 yrs old.

windlessuser said:

I've taken it apart and blew all the dust out. I've been monitoring the temperature, it stays around 45-50 degrees Celsius. It's about 3-4 yrs old.

Keep us in the loop.

Really dunno what else to try. Sometimes it can go for hours to a whole day without BSOD, other times it does so in quick succession.

windlessuser said:

Really dunno what else to try. Sometimes it can go for hours to a whole day without BSOD, other times it does so in quick succession.

I would download the update readiness tool and update to SP-1


Ensure you install the correct 64 or 32bit option for your system)

Download the System Update Readiness Tool (64bit)
Download the System Update Readiness Tool (32bit)

ISC Diary | Windows 7 / 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Problems

links courtesy jmh


Please remove and replace your Avast with Microsoft Security Essentials


http://files.avast.com/files/eng/aswclear5.exe

Microsoft Security Essentials - Free Antivirus for Windows


Old drivers in need of updating

Code:

enecir.sys    3/7/2007 3:28:17 AM        fffff880`04805000    fffff880`0481a000    0x00015000    0x45ee77a1                        
agrsm64.sys    11/10/2008 10:01:35 AM        fffff880`05c2a000    fffff880`05d4c000    0x00122000    0x49184ccf                        
Rt64win7.sys    2/26/2009 4:04:13 AM        fffff880`04400000    fffff880`04432000    0x00032000    0x49a65b0d                        
usbfilter.sys    4/3/2009 6:39:51 AM        fffff880`04943000    fffff880`0494f000    0x0000c000    0x49d5f587                        
HpqKbFiltr.sys    4/29/2009 8:48:30 AM        fffff880`0497e000    fffff880`0498a000    0x0000c000    0x49f85aae                        
AtiPcie.sys    5/5/2009 10:00:22 AM        fffff880`018b4000    fffff880`018bc000    0x00008000    0x4a005486                        
spldr.sys    5/11/2009 11:56:27 AM        fffff880`015c8000    fffff880`015d0000    0x00008000    0x4a0858bb                        
jmcr.sys    7/9/2009 7:45:19 AM        fffff880`03c6a000    fffff880`03c91000    0x00027000    0x4a55e65f

How To Find Drivers:

- search Google for the name of the driver
- compare the Google results with what's installed on your system to figure out which device/program it belongs to
- visit the web site of the manufacturer of the hardware/program to get the latest drivers (DON'T use Windows Update or the Update driver function of Device Manager).
- if there are difficulties in locating them, post back with questions and someone will try and help you locate the appropriate program.

- - The most common drivers are listed on this page: Driver Reference Driver Reference
- - Driver manufacturer links are on this page: Drivers and Downloads

Thanks much. Will try these out